POET & PHOTOGRAPHER

Alexis Rhone Fancher’s poem, “when I turned fourteen, my mother’s sister took me to lunch and said:” was chosen by Edward Hirsch for inclusion in The Best American Poetry of 2016. Her work can be found in Rattle, Verse Daily, Vox Populi, Paddock Review, Stay Thirsty Poets, Willawaw Journal, Writing In A Woman’s Voice, Cleaver Magazine, Slipstream, Askew, Plume, Tinderbox Literary Journal, Glass, The Nashville Review, Diode, decomP, Public Pool, Anti-Heroin chic, concis, Toad, Ramingo’s Porch, San Pedro River Review, SWWIM, Trailer Park Quarterly, PAPER and INK, UK, Shark Reef, SoFloPoJo, Anomaly Literary Journal, Blood Orange Review, Vox Populi, Drunk Monkeys, Amaryllis, UK, Barren Magazine, Cafe Reader, NZ, Califragile, Curator Magazine, diaphanous micro, Flash Blvd., Drunk Monkeys, Flock, First Literary Review, Poets&Artists, Red Flag Poetry, The American Journal of Poetry, cahoodaloodaling, Literary Mama, Rise Up Review, The Fem, Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles, Loch Raven Review, Nerve Cowboy, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Portside, Rat’s Ass Review, San Pedro River Review, streetcake, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Bared, Blink Ink, The MacGuffin, Ragazine, Menacing Hedge, 13 Myna Birds, KYSO Flash, Quaint Magazine, Blotterature, Hobart, Blink Ink, Carnival Literary Magazine, Pyrene's Fountain, great weather for Media, Les Femmes Folles, Cactus Heart, Fjords Review, Carbon Culture Review, Cliterature, The Chiron Review, Good Men Project, rawboned, Boyslut, Danse Macabre, Dirty Lit, Femme Cat, Fine Linen, Gyroscope Review, Kleft Jaw, Lummox 4, 5, 6, and 7, Patria Letterature, Postcards Poems and Prose, Red Light Lit, Spectrum, Thank You for Swallowing, The Nervous Breakdown, Wherewithal, WISH, Deep Water Literary Journal, Poeticdiversity, Little Raven, This Is Poetry: Women of the Small Presses, Gutter Eloquence, The Mas Tequila Review, Broadzine!, Bare Hands, Luciferous, High Coupe, Bukowski On Wry, Poetry Super Highway, H_NGM_N, The Serving House Poetry Journal, Clean Sheets, FRE&D, Downer Magazine, The Poetry Storehouse, One Hundred Word Stories, and elsewhere. She has been published in over fifty anthologies and chapbooks, both in the U.S. and abroad. Her photographs have been published worldwide, including spreads in River Styx, Blue Lyra, Fine Linen, Blink-Ink, Lummox, Rogue Agent, HeART Online, and the covers of The Mas Tequila Review, The Chiron Review, Heyday Magazine, Nerve Cowboy, Pithead Chapel, and Witness. Alexis is Poetry Editor of Cultural Weekly. She is the author of How I Lost My Virginity To Michael Cohen and Other Heart Stab Poems,(Sybaritic Press, 2014.) Her chapbook about the death of her son, Joshua, State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies, was published by KYSO Flash Press in October of 2015. Her second, erotic collection, Enter Here, was published in Spring, 2017, from KYSO Flash Press. Junkie Wife, about her first, disastrous marriage, was published in 20188 by Moon Tide Press. Since 2013 Alexis has been nominated for 25 Pushcart Prizes, one Best Short Fiction award, one Best Micro-Fiction, and four Best of the Net awards. In 2018 she won The Pangolin Review Prize for Poetry. She and her husband live and collaborate on the bluffs of San Pedro, CA. They have a spectacular view.