Alex Tretbar is the author of the chapbook Kansas City Gothic (Broken Sleep, 2025). He is a Writers for Readers Fellow with the Kansas City Public Library, where he teaches free writing classes to the community. His manuscript “Kansas City Gothic” was selected as a finalist for the 2023 Wolfson Poetry Chapbook Prize, and his poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Kenyon Review, Narrative, Poetry Northwest, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. He is an editor for Bear Review.