EDITOR PROFILES

Meet Steve Alexander (Alex)

Senior editor of ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications on Medium

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4 min readDec 10, 2021

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Alex, from his collection.

In this post, we introduce a senior editor of Illumination Integration Publications who brings new insights into writing and editing world.

Mr Steve Alexander, or Alex as he prefers to be called, first came to Medium in November 2019 with the idea he might have something to write people would find interesting to read. He is not only a prolific writer but also a voracious reader

He writes under the nom de plume The Wordsmith™🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 his little conceit deriving from when he was a practicing litigation lawyer who saw himself as a smithy of words.

Retired, 73-year-old Alex no longer writes in defense or prosecution, but to entertain, entice, enlighten, and inveigle.

A 58-year-old Alex moved from San Diego, California, United States to Fayetteville, Arkansas in 2006 to help his sister care for their mother in her advancing Alzheimer’s. She died. He stayed.

Now a septuagenarian, a perpetually perplexed and nonplussed Alex, a northern, urban-centric, liberal, and gay atheist, still lives in Fayetteville, a southern rural bastion of conservative, right-wing-Republican religiosity.

His literary métier is memoir, but he also writes political commentary and poetry when inspiration strikes. He is a top writer in the LGBTQ topic.

Besides Illumination and Illumination-Curated, you may find his work in such Medium publications as Prism & Pen, Found in My Journal, CRY Magazine, Politically Speaking, the Readers Hope, and his somewhat moribund publication One Gay Man’s Perspective.

Alex first wrote for Illumination in July 2020 and joined its editorial staff in mid-2021.

After that, Dr Mehmet Yildiz invited him to edit for his new publication Readers Hope to guide aspiring writers. We are grateful for his contributions in a line editor, mentor, and advisor role for publishing policy issues.

His natural editorial style is line editing. Alex can be tough in his assessment of text but is always a fair and caring editor. He becomes invested in an article’s and its author’s success.

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