Alexander Boldizar was the first post-independence Slovak citizen to graduate with a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. Since then, he has been an art gallery director in Bali, an attorney in San Francisco and Prague, a pseudo-geisha in Japan, a hermit in Tennessee, a paleontologist in the Sahara, a porter in the High Arctic, a police-abuse watchdog in New York City, an editor and art critic for C-Arts Magazine out of Jakarta and Singapore, and a consultant on Wall Street. His writing has won the PEN/Nob Hill prize, represented Bread Loaf as a nominee for Best New American Voices, and been shortlisted for a variety of other awards. His newest novel, The Man Who Saw Seconds, won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of 2025.Boldizar currently lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where his hobbies include throwing boulders (to make pools in the river behind his home for his son to swim in) and choking people while wearing pajamas, for which he has won a gold medal at the Pan American Championships and a bronze at the World Masters Championships of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. For several years, an online Korean dictionary had him listed as its entry for "ugly."