Alexej Savreux

Alexej Savreux is a poet, satirist, and journalist best known for his critically acclaimed book of poetry, Graffiti on the Window (2014), which received attention from NPR and The Midwest Book Review, among others. Savreux is also known for his subsequent poetic follow-ups, Eat Me & Other Short Poems (2015) and the satirical and experimental Asoak in the Knight's Moat (2016). Born in Burlington, Vermont, on February 8, 1989, Savreux has lived in South Burlington, Vermont; Annapolis, Maryland; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Boulder, Colorado; Kansas City, Kansas; Kansas City, Missouri, as well as in New York. Savreux, a two-time high school dropout and one-time expellee, spent most of his adolescent years as an at-risk youth. While in his twenties, he grappled with psychoses and frequent institutionalizations. He graduated from Step Up Community Learning Center in Olathe, Kansas, in 2009. Savreux studied linguistics at the University of Kansas as an undergraduate but dropped out after a semester. Savreux was later accepted into the University of Kansas' linguistics graduate program. Savreux is primarily of Czech descent on his mother's side and Hungarian and Serbian descent on his father's side. His godparents are French-Canadian. Savreux has published sporadically throughout his literary career and has written two feature-length screenplays, a stage play, a satirical radio play (The Symmetry of Schizophrenia and the Anti-Symmetry of Schizophrenic Life) (2014–2016), authored and co-authored multiple peer-reviewed articles, as well as two satirical pulp novels. Savreux has been professionally active in the arts since 2002, and his practice also extends to multimedia and studio arts, filmmaking, critical dialogue, and editing work. As of 2022, Savreux is in negotiations for several new books with Spartan Press.