Alexandra Burt was born in the East Hesse Highlands of Europe and has called Texas home for the past thirty years. She began her career in literary translation but soon turned to telling her own stories—stories that live at the intersection of beauty and darkness, silence and revelation. She is the author of three novels, a contributor to numerous anthologies, and a visual artist whose paintings echo the same themes of memory, transformation, and unseen landscapes.

From her home in the Central Texas Hill Country, perched on a ridge above a quiet lake, she writes and paints in equal measure—each medium informing the other. She also co-manages a boutique publishing company devoted to nurturing bold new voices. With a bestselling novel to her name, Alexandra continues to pursue the liminal: the edges of genre, of self, and of the stories we’re told—and the ones we keep hidden.

Her work often blends psychological suspense with atmospheric literary prose, focusing on themes of memory, trauma, identity, and the haunting weight of the past. Her stories tend to explore the gray areas of morality, with characters who are flawed, complex, and often in search of redemption or truth.

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She is the author of Remember Mia (2015), a psychological thriller about memory loss, postpartum trauma, and the unraveling of a woman’s identity after the disappearance of her child; The Good Daughter (2017), set in the Deep South, tells the story of a woman returning home to uncover long-buried secrets involving her mother’s dark past; and Shadow Garden (2020), a suspense—almost horror—novel with a plot so perfectly crafted and unwinding so beautifully that it creates a fantastic momentum.

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In addition to her novels, Burt has contributed short fiction to various literary and genre anthologies, including collections focused on feminist noir, speculative horror, and domestic suspense. Alexandra is also a visual artist and painter. Her artwork complements the mood and themes of her literary work—haunting, introspective, and filled with symbolic and emotional layers. Her visual art tends to reflect themes of memory, silence, reclamation, and transformation. She is the co-founder of a boutique publishing company, where she helps develop and publish new literary voices, often with an emphasis on dark fiction, memoir, and boundary-pushing genre work.

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She is currently working on a hybrid memoir titled I Come From Darkness, which blends personal narrative with true crime, memory studies, and historical research. She is also hard at work on Far From Any Road, a horror novella that reimagines possession and evil through the lens of motherhood and cosmic reclamation. Her writing has been described as lyrical yet gripping, emotionally raw, mysterious and psychologically rich, and steeped in atmosphere and memory. She often explores motherhood and its discontents, female agency and silence, the intersection of horror and realism, the lasting reverberations of childhood trauma—and always, the land and its memory as a character in itself.