Alexander Boldizar is a writer, lawyer, and art critic from Slovakia. Born in Košice in 1971, he was the first post-independence Slovak citizen to graduate with a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. Boldizar's writing has achieved significant recognition in literary circles. His work has won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 2024, as well as a PEN prize. He was nominated for inclusion in the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference's Best New American Voices anthology and has received various other literary awards throughout his career.