Alex Tretbar is a Writers for Readers Fellow with the Kansas City Public Library, where he teaches free writing classes to the community. His chapbook Kansas City Gothic (selected as a finalist for the 2023 Wolfson Poetry Chapbook Prize) will be published by Broken Sleep in October 2025. Poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in APARTMENT, The Cincinnati Review, Kenyon Review, Narrative, Poetry Northwest, The Rumpus, Sixth Finch, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. He is a poetry editor for Bear Review.
A copy of his CV is available here.