Bio
Alex de Campi writes graphic novels (the Eisner-nominated noirs Bad Girls and Parasocial; the critically acclaimed pulp horror Dracula, Motherf**ker!, so many more), prose novels (medieval thriller The Scottish Boy; paranormal thriller Heartbreak Incorporated), film and TV (Blade Runner: Black Lotus and Scavengers Reign) , and sometimes poetry.
She has collaborated with director Duncan Jones collaborated on the sci-fi thriller Madi: Once Upon A Time in the Future, with Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski on sci-fi adventure Scrapper, and with writer-editor Khai Krumbhaar on True War Stories, an anthology of soldiers’ deployment tales.
She has snuck across the Russian border, sailed across the South China Sea, and explored the mountains of North Vietnam in a jeep with only a cassette tape of Boney M’s greatest hits. She has lived in Hong Kong, London, Manila, briefly in Mexico, and places in between, but at present she resides in New York with her daughter, a a dog, and a cat.
A Beginner’s Guide to Alex
The Alex de Campi starter kit:
Fiction: The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino
Nonfiction: Air Guitar, Dave Hickey
Poetry: John Ashbery’s A Wave and WH Auden’s The Sea & The Mirror (a tie)
Tea: Pu Erh in the morning, sencha in the afternoon
Film: Le Cercle Rouge (Melville), Orphée (Cocteau), L’Avventura (Antonioni)
Notebooks: Moleskine XL softcover, blank pages
Pens: Free ballpoints from banks and hotels
Writing music: Top Cat: Music for Rascals