Alex Gino

Alex Gino
Gino (2016 at the international literature festival berlin)
Born	Staten Island, New York
Occupation	Author
Notable work	George
Website	www.alexgino.com

Alex Gino is an American children's book writer. Gino's debut book, George, was the winner of the 2016 Stonewall Book Award as well as the 2016 Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBT Children's/Young Adult.

Gino identifies as genderqueer, making use of the singular they pronoun set and the honorific mx. in reference to themself.

Gino was born and raised in Staten Island, New York, but over the years has lived in such locations as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Brooklyn, New York; Astoria, Queens; Northampton, Massachusetts; and Oakland, California. As of April 2016, however, Gino lives in their RV as they drive around the country.

Gino is known best for their debut novel George, a middle grade novel featuring a young transgender girl, which they first began work on in 2003. The working title of the novel was Girl George (a reference to Boy George), though when the book was bought by Scholastic, this was changed to the present title to broaden readership. Gino has expressed some regrets about their character with this title, and mentions that if they had the opportunity to do it over, they would have chosen a different title.

With regards to requests for a sequel to George, Gino expressly states that "[they] will NOT be writing a transition story for a largely cis audience more interested in trans bodies than trans people."

Gino's website mentions, additionally, that aside from promoting George, they are also working on another middle grade novel, this time "about best friends, baby sisters, first crushes, Deafness and the Black Lives Matter movement."