Alexis Sears Author

Alexis Sears received her BA in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University and her MFA in poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Her first book, Out of Order, won the 2021 Donald Justice Poetry Prize (judged by Quincy Lehr) and was published by Autumn House Press in 2022. In 2023, Judge Allison Joseph awarded it the Best Book of 2022 for the Poetry by the Sea Book Award.A scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference in 2019, her work has been widely published and she is currentlyserving as Editor-at-Large of the Northwest Review and Contributing Editor of Literary Matters.teaches ninth-grade English in Oakland, California.