Alex Tretbar is the author of the chapbooks According to the Plat Thereof (Ethel, 2025) and Kansas City Gothic (Broken Sleep, 2025). As a Writers for Readers Fellow with the Kansas City Public Library, he teaches free writing classes to the community. His poems, nonfiction, and fiction appear or are forthcoming in Always Crashing, Annulet, APARTMENT, Bat City Review, Coma, Kenyon Review, mercury firs, Protean, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere.