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Alex McWalters is a writer, musician and educator based in Asheville, NC and Atlanta, GA. He plays percussion for River Whyless, and is a PhD candidate in English/Creative Writing at Georgia State University. He holds an MFA in Fiction from Warren Wilson and has served as the Warren Wilson MFA Residency Fellow since 2020. He serves on the board of Punch Bucket Lit, an Asheville literary nonprofit. Songs by River Whyless have been featured on, or in, NPR’s All Things Considered, Tiny Desk, World Café, and The Washington Post. His writing has appeared in Nimrod International, Dogwood Journal, North Carolina Literary Review, No Depression, Paste Magazine, The Bluegrass Situation and and has been named a finalist for the Florida Review Fiction Prize, the James Hurst Fiction Prize, The Dogwood Fiction Prize, The Charleston Literary Festival Cato Fellowship, the John Updike Casitas Fellowship and the NCLR Doris Betts Fiction Prize.
He also co-owns The Hive Collective LLC, an experiential cabin rental business in Swannanoa, NC
