Alexander Lazarus Wolff’s writing has appeared on Best American Poetry website and in such venues as Poets.org, North American Review, Crab Orchard Review, Cherry Tree, and elsewhere. He holds a B.A. with honors in English and a minor in psychology from the College of William & Mary, where he was awarded the Academy of American Poet’s Prize. He has an MFA from the University of Houston, where he was an Inprint Fellow and an assistant poetry editor for Gulf Coast. He will pursue a PhD in literature and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His work has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Napa Valley, and other such conferences.

He was the private student of David Lehman, editor of The Oxford of American Poetry and series editor for The Best American Poetry, for over two years. At William & Mary, he completed an honors thesis in creative writing under Henry Hart, the 17th Poet Laureate of Virginia.

His areas of research interest include contemporary poetry and creative nonfiction. He is particularly interested in Confessionalism in both the modern age and in its emergence in mid-century poetry. This interest encompasses the original confessional poets, the construction of “I”-persona in creative writing, but also the movement's larger extent on the impact and perception of mental illness. He is further interested in formal poetry, LGBTQ+ literature, prosody, and the appli