Hi, I’m Alexandra.
I’m a writer, artist, and storyteller.
After four years as an ROTC midshipman in the U.S. Navy, I was medically discharged in 2016. This broke my heart and steered me away from my original dream of serving, helping others, and traveling the world. I spent the last few years rediscovering myself, and the one constant through it all was storytelling. I completed my bachelor’s degree in Computer Animation at FSU in 2023 and began bringing my stories to life in 2024. Since then, I’ve written four manuscripts.
I moved to the Portland Metro area of Oregon in 2017 and instantly fell in love with the beautiful PNW. My parents are itchy nomads, so I’ve lived in Miami, Philly, Hawaii, and Los Angeles. But nowhere else makes me feel like home like Portland —
The City of Roses, Bridges, and Books.
On a typical day, you can catch me at a cafe in Portland writing, at home plotting, or curled up consuming other artists’ stories.
Welcome to my little corner of the world, and thank you for reading,
Alexandra Marie
fun facts
Architect or Gardener? Both! If I dive in without a plan, I’ll write a complicated Frankensteinian monster with too many ideas, genres, and motivations. If I plan too much, the process becomes very rigid and my characters get trapped. I prefer to spend time upfront world-building, and then I write. I'm discovering the characters that would live in that world and writing their story as it comes to me.
Tea or Coffee? I’m a tea drinker - the only one in my whole family! I can’t drink coffee :/ It makes me vibrate through time… :|
Beach or Mountain? I can’t decide! I’m grounded and love gardening, hiking, camping, and snowboarding! The beach makes me emotional. It’s intense, chaotic, unpredictable, yet refreshing and cleansing. I love sailing and swimming. My heart loves the ocean's depths, but my soul craves the mountain’s peak.
Favorite Books: Seminal —> Chronicles of Narnia, but also… Foundation by Isaac Asimov, Rogue Angel by Alex Archer, Red Rising by Pierce Brown, The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah, The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman, A Psalm For The Wild-Built by Becky Chambers, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, The Harry Potter series, Eragon, and so many more…
Favorite movies: Black Swan, Hellboy, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Treasure Planet, Atlantis, The Mummy, Tomb Raider, Inception, The Dark Knight trilogy, and anything dark fantasy or sci-fi!
Zodiac? October Scorpio ♏
Hogwarts House? Slytherin according to Pottermore 🐍
Element? I’m an earth bender! https://www.avatarstudiosofficial.com/quiz/
Hobbies? Reading, gaming (video and board games!), creating in Canva, making playlists on Spotify, drawing, 3D modeling, walking my dog, discovering cafes, and disc golf.
Favorite things? The smell of paper, typewriters, libraries, reorganizing my book collection, wandering through a used bookstore, roses, analog watches, running, going to the movies, tea lattes, brunch with my besties, traveling with my husband, gloomy mornings, castles and cottages, sunny days on the beach, the feel of sand between my toes (sorry Anakin), the smell of a forest after rain, winter days in a cabin with a cup of hot cocoa, Halloween and autumn trees…and books of course!
