title: Alex Jeffers
text: # Alex Jeffers
  
  Alex Jeffers is an American novelist and short story writer. He is the grandson of Robinson Jeffers. His work has appeared in The Pioneer, the North American Review, Blithe House Quarterly, and Fantasy and Science Fiction. He also contributed to and served as an editor for the gay-oriented science fiction magazine Icarus, as well as overseeing the BrazenHead imprint of Lethe Press.
  
  Jeffers's novel The Padishah's Son and the Fox received the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Erotica, while Deprivation; or, Benedetto Furioso: An Oneiromancy was also nominated in the Science Fiction category. Jeffers had previously been nominated for a Gaylactic Spectrum Award in 2010.
  
  