Alyx Chandler (she/her) is a writer from Alabama who received her MFA in creative writing and poetry at the University of Montana, where she was the Richard Hugo fellow and taught rhetoric and poetry. She now lives and writes in Chicago. She currently works as an English adjunct and Writing Support Specialist at National Louis University, as well as a Poet-in-Residence at the Chicago Poetry Center, where she teaches poetry to children in the Chicago Public School System. She also teaches remotely with Free Verse Writing Project, which facilitates poetry workshops for teenagers who are incarcerated or in group homes in Montana.

Before that, she served as the 2021-2022 AmeriCorps VISTA for two Montana creative writing nonprofits: Free Verse Writing Project and Missoula Writing Collaborative. She also taught as the head instructor to high schoolers attending the Rattlesnake Writing Workshop, as well as co-taught for the Words With Wings Writing Camp. During her AmeriCorps Vista year, she was also able to teach a Writers’ Room class for adults as well as weekly Free Verse classes to youth experiencing mental health crises at the St. Patrick’s Adolescent Psychiatric Unit.

Previously, she graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in journalism, marketing and a minor in creative writing, where she won the Holle Media Writing Award in 2015 for reporting, and then worked for several years in Birmingham as a features editor and journalist for Starnes Publishing.

Email me at alyxchandler.com.