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Corey Alexander (1974-2020), a beloved writer, educator, and friend to many of us in the romance, erotica, and science fiction and fantasy writing communities, passed away on August 13, 2020, from complications related to diabetes.
Corey Alexander was a queer trans disabled fat Jewish activist, educator, and writer. Under the name Xan West, they wrote queer kink erotica and romance that centered trans, queer, disabled, neurodivergent, and fat characters. Show Yourself To Me, their collection of their best erotica stories, won an honorable mention for the National Leather Association John Preston short fiction award. Their most recent books in print included Eight Kinky Nights, Tenderness, Nine of Swords, Reversed, and Their Troublesome Crush, all centering fat, queer, and neurodivergent protagonists finding love, belonging, and friendship. For many years, Corey was working on their novel Shocking Violet, and we believe that Corey was close to completing that novel when they passed away. On their blog and in other outlets, Corey published powerful and influential nonfiction essays on kink, queerness and transness, stone sexuality, trauma, survivorship, disability, neurodivergence, and issues of representation in literature.
