Hello, internet, and all the ships at sea!

I'm Alexandra Erin: blogger, poet, satirist, and author. Since 2007, I have used micropatronage to pay my bills and keep myself and my stories alive. Now Patreon makes it easier for me to do what I do, and for you to help me do it.

About Me

I am a dyed-in-the-wool old-school fantasy fan. I grew up on a steady diet of things like The Legend of Zelda, Dungeons & Dragons, The Chronicles of Narnia, and the works of Ursula Le Guin and Madeleine L'Engle.

I'm also a trans woman, though, and so I come into these worlds from a very different place than a lot of the people who have been presented as the default fantasy fan does. I come into them looking for different things. These facts can't help but be reflected in the stories I write, or in the non-fiction writing I do on my blog, Twitter, and occasionally on other social media.

I use patronage to write because it allows me to tell the story I want to tell in the space and at the pace I am able to tell it. This means I don't have to constrain my ideas to fit between the covers of a book or within the expectations of marketeers. This allows me freedom to experiment. Of course, some experiments work out better than others, but that's the nature of experimentation.

I am a prolific spewer of words. I write flash fiction, genre poetry, and tabletop gaming content, some of which is published on my blog and some of which finds homes elsewhere. I also blog about many of the same issues which inflect my writing, and which surround the fantasy fandoms to which I belong.

When you pledge your support to me, you are supporting me in my ability to tell the stories I have to tell, to share the insights I have to share, to write the poems that are within me to write. You'll be supporting me in such endeavors as my poetry, my blogging, and my tabletop game design efforts, including my creation of content for the 5th Edition of the most popular roleplaying game in the world, but mostly my fiction, which is usually fantasy or otherwise speculative and often queer-centric.

About My Work

I was a pioneer in the area of serialized original fiction written for the web. While I'll continue to write poetry, commentary, and other things, I'm mainly getting back to my roots.

My main current project is Ash, the City, and Summer, a work of modern fantasy in a secondary world that blends modern technology with the tropes of post-Tolkien, post-D&D western fantasy. It updates on Mondays for patrons, with posts becoming visible to the general public on Friday.

Other long-gestating projects will be added as I work them into my rotation.

Thank you!