Alex Behr is a poet, short fiction author, and essayist and the author of Planet Grim (7.13 Books). An MFA recipient from Portland State, she received a RACC Make-Learn-Build grant to create the adoption interview website project “Altar-Altered: Sacred Objects and Adoption Stories” and a RACC Arts3C grant to produce the short documentary “Grief Stick,” combining her recorded poetry, found sounds, videos, and photographs, directed by Brian Padian. The film is accompanied by a poetry chapbook (Picture Frame Press). She has taught creative writing for more than a decade at Portland State, Corporeal Writing, Literary Arts’ Writers in the Schools program, and elsewhere, including arts-based workshops at the Portland Book Festival. Her writing appears in Tin House, Salon, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Lumina, and Painted Bride Quarterly, among many others, and is featured in fine art and on podcasts.