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I write about
queer girls
doing
hard things

A woman with short red hair and glasses speaking at a podium during a writers retreat event, with an audience in front of her. The podium has a sign that reads 'Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, a program of Lambda Literary.'

Alexandra Fallgren

Alexandra Fallgren (she/her) is the author of the forthcoming young adult novel I Don’t Belong To You (Norton Young Readers, 2027). She writes about messy queer characters coming of age in a messy (mostly) straight world.

Alexandra grew up doing theater in Iowa, went to college for opera in Michigan, and now lives in Chicago where she surrounds herself with words. She holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University, and is a Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Retreat Fellow.

When not living in imaginary worlds, Alexandra plays cello and takes too many photos of her cats.

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