Alex McWalters | January 16-February 12, 2024

Alex McWalters is a writer, musician and educator based in Asheville, North Carolina. He plays percussion for River Whyless, and is an adjunct professor of Creative Writing at UNC-Asheville. He holds an MFA in Fiction from Warren Wilson and has served as the Warren Wilson MFA Residency Fellow since 2020. He serves on the board of Punch Bucket Lit, an Asheville literary nonprofit. Songs by River Whyless have been featured on, or in, NPR’s All Things Considered, Tiny Desk, World Café, and The Washington Post. His writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Nimrod International, No Depression, Paste Magazine, The Bluegrass Situation and Asheville Grit. In his free time he likes to rebuild old motorcycles.

Photo credit Molly Milroy