Alexa Koch is a second-year fiction candidate in the creative writing MFA program at the University of Massachusetts Boston; she received her bachelor’s from the University of Miami in 2017. She plans to pursue a PhD in English (literature) once completing her MFA in the spring of 2022.

She regularly sends out her fiction for publication in literary journals and magazines. Her clip portfolio includes pieces in award-winning, undergraduate-run The Washington Square News and The Miami Hurricane; and EUPHORIA., The Boca Raton Observer, Boca Life, The Palm Beacher, Fort Lauderdale Daily, and Jupiter magazines.