About

Alexandra Naughton is a writer, publisher, and literary events producer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the founder of Be About It Press, established in 2010, and the co-host of the Bring A Blanket reading series.

She is the author of a memoir, a place a feeling something he said to you (Spooky Girlfriend Press, 2020), and several poetry collections including Rapid Transit (Black Lawrence Press, 2018) You Could Never Objectify Me More Than I've Already Objectified Myself (Punk Hostage Press, 2015), I Will Always Be In Love (Paper Press, 2015), and I Wish You Never Emailed Me (Ghost City Press, 2016), and others. Her first novel, American Mary, was published by Civil Coping Mechanisms in 2016.

Her writing has been widely published on the web and in print, and she performs regularly in the Philadelphia area and elsewhere.

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Naughton's work straddles the line between fiction and non-fiction, prose and poetry, and explores themes such as self-objectification, existentialism, the frailty of text-based communication, and capitalism.

In a review of her first poetic novel, American Mary, on the literary website Heavy Feather Review, Eric Nguyen wrote: “Naughton is clearly more of a conceptual writer, one who at once challenges and entertains. Her characters are reflections of systems—systems of oppression, as well as systems of support. She can be playful and deeply serious and—by the last pages of American Mary, as the book takes on a monologue quality—very powerful. In the end, Naughton does what [other internet writers] could not: be avant-garde not only in form, but politics as well.”

Find a list of links to Naughton's publications here.