Alexander Boldizar
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Alexander Boldizar

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Alexander Boldizar was the first post-independence Slovak citizen to graduate with a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. Since then, he has been an art gallery director in Bali, an attorney in San Francisco and Prague, a pseudo-geisha in Japan, a hermit in Tennessee, a paleontologist in the Sahara, a porter in the High Arctic, a consultant on Wall Street, an art critic out of Jakarta, and a police-abuse watchdog and Times Square billboard writer in New York City. He now lives in Vancouver, Canada. Boldizar’s writing has won the PEN/Nob Hill prize, a Somerset Award for literary fiction, a Best New American Voices nomination and other awards. His first novel, The Ugly, was a best-seller among small presses in the United States with several “Best Book of 2016” awards and lists. He has a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, is a founding director of a charity that brings circus to youth in at-risk communities, and was once challenged to a leg-wrestling contest by the founder of The Onion.
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