Alex M. Frankel was born and raised in San Francisco, educated at Columbia University and New England College, and spent ten years in Spain before settling in Southern California in the 1990s. He writes poems, plays, short stories and for ten years served as a poetry critic for one of America's oldest literary magazines, The Antioch Review. About his poetry collection "Birth Mother Mercy," Alicia Ostriker has written, "Alex M. Frankel sings in a register almost beyond hearing, the pain is so keen, the writing so fine." About his story collection "Flame at Door and Raisin," Kirkus Reviews has said, "Powerfully haunting tales of love, betrayal, and heartbreak in the Europe of decades past." Since 2009, Frankel has been the emcee and curator of the Second Sunday Poetry Series in Los Angeles, www.secondsundaypoetry.com.
