Alexandra Anastasia Viets is a writer, screenwriter, and journalist whose work focuses on women and displacement.

Alexandra Anastasia Viets was raised in South Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. She was born in Dallas, Texas. Her undergraduate work at Oberlin College was in Political theory, Asian Studies and Art. Focusing on international literature after college, she worked at Three Continents Press, the first U.S. press to publish the early works of Nobel Prize winners Naguib Mahfouz and Derek Walcott.

Her graduate thesis project at Columbia University’s School of the Arts was an award-winning screenplay called, “Cotton Mary,” which examined the psychological impact of colonialism on a small community of Anglo-Indian women in post-independence India. A staged reading of the screenplay at the New York Foundation for the Arts led to the film’s production in 2000 by Merchant Ivory. Her articles, essays and screenplays have continued to explore the legacies of Empire and global movements. Research on the identity of her Polish-born mother, and specifically her mother’s activities during the Second World War, has led to a series of personal essays and an upcoming memoir entitled After the War, Maryna A Memoir.

Alexandra is married, with two children, and lives in Maryland by the Potomac River. She is represented by Sydnie Thornton at Word One Literary.