Alex is an award-winning journalist who has worked for the City News Bureau of Chicago, the Washington DC bureau of the Baltimore Sun; Newsday; NBC in Tucson; and many other media organizations. He is the author of Chasing Medical Miracles: The Promise and Perils of Clinical Trials (Walker 2009) and the novel Bad Day for the Home Team (Zumaya 2010.) Originally from New York, Alex lives in Bisbee, Arizona.

Written by Alex on May 17, 2012 – 10:13 am

I just completed my first semester as a graduate student at the University of Texas at El Paso’s online MFA in creative writing program. I did it from home. UTEP offers the country’s only online MFA in creative writing program so I was able to be in my house in Bisbee, Arizona and take classes [...]

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