Alex Manley is a Montreal writer. A graduate of Concordia University's creative writing program, he was the winner of the 2012 Irving Layton Award for Fiction. His work has appeared in Maisonneuve magazine, Carte Blanche, the Puritan, Powder Keg, and the Association of American Poets' Poem-a-Day feature, among others, and his debut poetry collection, We Are All Just Animals & Plants, was published by Metatron Press in 2016.