Alexandra Barylski, M.A. (Yale University) is the Executive Editor of the Marginalia Review of Books, the Director of Projects and Publications at the Institute for the Meanings of Science, and the Co-Founder of The Writing College, where she directs The Women’s Writing Institute.

At Marginalia, she works with the world’s leading scholars, writers, scientists, and artists, editing and curating their work for over 100,000 readers and directs the publications events for the Meanings of Science Institute. At Yale Divinity School, she studied with Christian Wiman, former Editor of Poetry. She has taken poetry workshops with poet and critic, Alicia Ostricker and poet, MacArthur Fellow (1997), and president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Edward Hirsch. In 2018, she was the Kenyon College Peter Taylor Fellow for Guggenheim Fellow (2017), poet, and writer, Afaa Weaver.

Alex is also an award-winning poet and deep literacy advocate and coach. Her poetry has won competitions and awards, including the Morton Marcus Poetry Prize. She holds a B.A. in Secondary Education and Literature and Language Arts and two Master’s degrees in Literature. In 2020, she founded The Writing College with philosopher, writer, and applied ethicist, Samuel Loncar, Ph.D (Yale University) to create a solution for the crisis of language in an AI age. At The Writing College, she teaches reading and writing as spiritual technologies. Her method is based on two decades of experience teaching and researching in writing labs, middle and high schools, liberal arts universities, technical colleges, and writing programs for emotionally disabled children and adults.

Writers who work with her have published in major academic presses, leading journals, and news outlets like The Washington Post and The New York Times. Young women writers (under 18) who work with her have reached audiences over 20K with their writing, been awarded the Scholastic Silver Key for non-fiction, and been selected for the The New York Times summer academy.