Alexa Weik von Mossner holds a PhD in Literature from UC San Diego and has published six scholarly books, including Cosmopolitan Minds and Affective Ecologies. On the fiction side, she has penned over 160 episodes of the German weekly TV drama series FABRIXX. Her short stories have appeared in magazines such as Orca, Delmarva Review, and The Dillydoun Review. Her novel, Fragile, is forthcoming from Elzwhere Press.