Alex Manley is a 36-year-old non-binary person (they/them pronouns) who has lived in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke their whole life.

They are the Senior Editor for AskMen. Their essays, fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous print and online publications, including The Walrus, Hazlitt, Vulture, Catapult, Maisonneuve, Carte Blanche, Grain and Vallum, among others, and they have been a finalist for a National Magazine Award and a Digital Publishing Award. Their debut poetry collection, We Are All Just Animals & Plants, was published by Metatron Press in 2016. In 2021, their translation of Daphné B.’s Maquillée (Marchand de feuilles, 2020), was published by Coach House Books as Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture Under Late Capitalism; it was a finalist for the 2023 Cole Foundation Prize for Translation. Their non-fiction debut, The New Masculinity: A Roadmap for a 21st-Century Definition of Manhood, was published in May 2023 by ECW Press and was a finalist for the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction. Post-Man: Essays on Being a Neurodivergent Non-Binary Person, their debut essay collection, is forthcoming with Arsenal Pulp Press in September 2025. They are represented by Carly Watters of P.S. Literary Agency.