Alan Lessik

Alan Lessik is a member of the Berlin Queer Writers Circle, Zen practitioner, amateur figure skater and LGBT activist. His debut novel The Troubleseeker was short-listed for the Publishing Triangle’s 2017 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction. His non-fiction works and essays have been published by Lambda Literary (The Importance of Novels in Preserving Queer History), the Bay Area Reporter (Sex in the Time of Covid-19), Advocate (Marching to Pretoria), and, San Francisco Bay Guardian. Recently, he was a guest on Andrew. G. Marshall’s Podcast, The Meaningful Life, and previously had radio essays on KQED Radio and performed as a storyteller at the Moth. For three years, he moderated or participated in panels on queer fiction at the Associati

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