
Alex Harvey-Rivas
Author of the dark, queer, and fantastical
Reverent: An Anthology of Divinity
A collection of stories, poetry and non-fiction dedicated to the divine.Divinity exists in everything. Divinity exists everywhere. From fantastical realms and worlds of depth to what lives and suffers in our very own reality. From the gods above, to the girl sitting by your side. Divine.This anthology is for mature audiences due to themes and explicit content.
aBOUT aLEX
It is said Alex has known they wanted to be a writer since the age of two, when they would carry around their mother's Tomb Raider guide and scribble in it. Alex would argue they started instead when they were six, writing fanfiction of their parents' World of Warcraft characters. Regardless, their obsession with the written word has been one long-lived. From Warrior Cats to The Witches of Eileanan and beyond, Alex has always had a fascination with the fantastical and strange.Come early high school, Alex would develop their longest-lasting fantasy world (and several accompanying projects) to date: Mesiphrae. Their first source of inspiration was found in the works of FromSoft, which would continue to be an inspiration to them as they got older. Mesiphrae would first see itself featured in Alex's first published short, "The Temple on Cicaro Hill", and has continued to grow and change as they have. Its most recent appearance was in A Sharper, More Lasting Pain.Alex loves all things monstrous, and often find themself writing characters with grimy coats between their layers. Even more heroic characters land on the scuffed side of perfect. Alex likes to focus on themes of self-actualization and discovery as an adult, complex relationships of all sorts, disability and neurodivergency, and the many shapes of queerness. Most often, this takes form in sapphic sometimes-women.When they aren't writing, Alex daylights as an aircraft sealer for a massive aerospace company, plays video games from their sizeable collection, inhales video essays on a variety of topics, and reads the books of their indie peers. They find kinship in their doting partner and their three children: Sagora the snake, Lyndis the turtle, and Wisp the cat. Alex's next book release is expected mid-2026.
