Pamela Alex DiFrancesco is a queer activist and a writer of fiction and literary nonfiction. Their debut novel, The Devils That Have Come to Stay, is a radical Acid Western that completely flips the American Western on its head, and is available from Medallion Press. They live in New York City with their cat, Sylvia Rivera-Katz. In the past, they have taught writing to children, worked at the legendary Strand Book Store, and baked pastries at a resort in the Catskills. Alex has most recently published pieces in Brevity, The Carolina Quarterly, The New Ohio Review, and Monkeybicycle.