Alex Tretbar wrote the chapbooks According to the Plat Thereof (Ethel, 2025) and Kansas City Gothic (Broken Sleep, 2025). As a Writers for Readers Fellow with the Kansas City Public Library, he teaches free writing classes to the community. His work appears or is forthcoming in Always Crashing, Annulet, APARTMENT, Callaloo, Coma, Full Stop, Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, Sixth Finch, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere.