Victoria N. Alexander, Ph.D., is a literary fiction novelist, writing about censored and controversial subjects with audacity, humor, and compassion. Her honors include the Washington Prize for Fiction (Smoking Hopes ) Dallas Observer ‘s “Best of 2003” (Naked Singularity ) and the Literary Fiction Book Review award (Locus Amoenus). Her latest novel, Locus Amoenus , was also a Dayton Literary Peace Prize nominee. Her fiction is published by The Permanent Press .
Alexander is also a philosopher of science, author of The Biologist’s Mistress: Rethinking Self-Organization in Art, Literature and Nature . She is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center alum, former Public Scholar for the New York Council for the Humanities, and a director at the Dactyl Foundation, working on emerging concepts in science and encouraging interaction between the sciences and the arts. She serves on the editorial boards of Biosemiotics journal (Springer Publishing) and Meaning Systems book series (Fordham University Press). Her work in saltational evolutionary theory appears in Fine Lines: Nabokov’s Scientific Art , published by Yale University Press, which has received much praise from major international publications. She is currently serving a three-year term on the Fulbright Specialist roster as an expert in Nabokov’s theory of mimicry. See full CV .
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