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 Singapore, and a police-abuse watchdog and Times Square billboard writer in New York City. He now lives in Vancouver, Canada, where he writes, grapples and plays with big rocks.

Boldizar’s writing has won a variety of awards in literary fiction, science fiction, thriller, and humor and satire categories, including the 2025 Locus Award for best science fiction, the Mark Twain award for satire, and the Somerset and PEN/Nob Hill prizes for literary fiction. 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.