His work has been published in The Florida Review, The Cortland Review, Third Coast, Salt Hill, DIALOGIST, Grist, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal, among others. He was a finalist for the Lascaux Review Poetry Prize and the Hippocrates Young Poets Prize, and the recipient of the 2014 Critical Pass Review Junior Poets Prize and the 2014 46er Prize for the Adirondack Review. Alex currently hosts a poetry program for patients with dementia at the Augustana long-term health facility in Brooklyn, teaches a summer poetry workshop for underserved children in the East Harlem area, and reads for The Boiler.