Alex Gilvarry

Alex Gilvarry (b. 1981 on Staten Island, NY) is an American writer. He is the author of the novels From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant (2012) and Eastman Was Here (2017). In 2009, Gilvarry graduated from CUNY - Hunter College's MFA Program in Creative Writing. He was included on the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" list in 2014, and Eastman Was Here was chosen as one of the best books of 2017 by Esquire. He is a professor of Creative Writing at Monmouth University in New Jersey. He is 6'3" and lives on Staten Island and is married to the writer Alexandra Kleeman.