Alexa Weik von Mossner

Alexa Weik von Mossner is an award-winning novelist, scriptwriter, and film scholar. She worked for several years in the German film and television industry and wrote more than 160 TV scripts before earning her PhD in Literature at the University of California, San Diego. She spent four years as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and then moved to Austria where she is currently appointed as Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, dividing her time between Klagenfurt and Freiburg in Germany. Her short fiction has appeared in American literary magazines such as Orca, Delmarva Review, and The Dillydoun Review. Fragile is her first novel.