View from Milseburg to Wasserkuppe
Alexandra Burt was born in the East Hesse Highlands of Germany and has lived in Texas for more than thirty years. Before turning to fiction, she worked in literary translation, fostering a lasting fascination with language, perspective, and the ways stories travel across cultures.
She is the author of three novels—Remember Mia (2015), The Good Daughter (2017), and Shadow Garden (2020)—and her work has been translated into multiple languages. Writing across psychological suspense, crime fiction, and literary horror, she is drawn to questions of memory, identity, trauma, and the lingering presence of the past.
Her short fiction has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies, including Austin Noir. She also conceived and creatively directed the anthology Every Evil Under the Sun through an author-owned imprint, bringing together bold and boundary-pushing voices in crime and dark fiction.
Having grown up in a large, rambling house at the edge of town, she learned early how fragile a structure can be despite its solid walls. In her work, she returns often to houses, landscapes, and the hidden forces that shape them, interested in the ways history and experience leave their mark on the world around us. In recent years, that interest has led her into darker literary territory where violence, grief, and inherited memory alter both people and environments.
She is currently seeking representation for two book-length projects: A Map of Darkness Gathered, a memoir blending true crime, personal narrative, and psychological inquiry, and The Sunshine King, a literary suspense novel with horror elements that blends ghost story, suspense, and noir influences. She is also at work on Ilona & Miklos, an experimental literary horror project exploring memory, architecture, and the hidden systems people build to survive collapse.
From her home overlooking a lake in the Texas Hill Country, Alexandra writes and paints, with her visual work reflecting the same concerns that animate her fiction: memory, landscape, and the traces people leave behind.