Alec Clayton

I'm a renegade Mississippian now living in the Pacific Northwest. I have been a longtime theater and art critic for newspapers in Tacoma and Olympia, Washington, and I am editor of the arts magazine OLY ARTS. I have a masters degree in drawing and painting, and I retired from painting in the mid-2000s after surviving open heart surgery to focus on writing.

I am co-owner of Mud Flat Press, based in Olympia, Washington. https://mudflatpress.com/alec-clayton/

Fiction: Locked In; Teacher; This is Me, Debbi, David; Tupelo – Bonus Nine Short Stories; The Freedom Trilogy: (1) The Backside of Nowhere, (2) Return to Freedom, and (3) Visual Liberties; Reunion at the Wetside; The Wives of Marty Winters; Imprudent Zeal; Until the Dawn; 3 stories in the anthology Mud Flat Shorts (mostly fiction).

Nonfiction: As If Art Matters; and What the Heck is a Frame-Pedestal Aesthetic?