Will Alexander

Poet

Birth Year 1948

Birthplace Los Angeles, CA

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About

Surreal poet, novelist, and playwright who won the Whiting Fellowship for Poetry in 2001 and a California Arts Council Fellowship in 2002.

Before Fame

He earned a Bachelors in English from University of California in Los Angeles in 1972.

Trivia

His work has appeared in the Boston Review, Chicago Review, and The Nation. He released his first series of poems called Vertical Rainbow Climber in 1987.

Family Life

He attended Washington High School.

Associated With

He was inspired by poet, Octavio Paz, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990.