V.N. Alexander

V. N. Alexander is a literary fiction novelist (Smoking Hopes, 1994; Naked Singularity, 2003; Trixie, 2010; and Locus Amoenus, 2015) published by The Permanent Press. She is also a philosopher of science working on creativity, evolutionary adaptation, and learning. She is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center alum, a former Public Scholar for the New York Council for the Humanities, and is currently at ITMO University in St. Petersburg, Russia on a Fulbright grant doing art/science research. Her science publications include The Biologist’s Mistress: Rethinking Self-Organization in Art, Literature and Nature, 2011 and a contribution to Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov's Scientific Art, published by Yale University Press, which was one of Nature’s Top 20 Books of 2016.