Alex Tretbar is the author of the chapbooks toofarwandered (Tilted House, forthcoming 2026), According to the Plat Thereof (Ethel, 2025) and Kansas City Gothic (Broken Sleep, 2025). He works in the Center for Digital and Public Humanities at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, where he is currently studying the archive of early volumes of New Letters (1934-1951) and assisting with the Kansas City Monuments Coalition. Recent poetry, fiction, and nonfiction appear or are forthcoming in 128 Lit, Annulet, Capgras, Cleveland Review of Books, Fence, La Lancha, Works & Days, and elsewhere. Alongside UMKC students, alumni, and faculty, he teaches creative writing at Chillicothe Correctional Center, a women’s prison in Missouri.