I Always Knew I Was a Boy
Born female, a novelist describes a childhood spent searching in earnest for the word that best described who he really was.
Alex Myers
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Alex Myers is a writer, teacher, and speaker and was the first openly transgender student at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University. He completed his MFA in fiction writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, where he began his work on his novel, "Revolutionary" (Simon & Schuster). He currently lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and two cats.