Alfred P. Doblin has spent most of his professional career working as a journalist. He has been recognized by numerous state and national journalism associations, including the American Society of News Editors (ASNE) award for excellence in editorial writing; the Society of the Silurians; NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists; and was nominated four times for the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Newspaper Columnist. He was a runner-up in the Saints and Sinners 2024 Short Fiction Contest, and his debut book, Tales of the Lavender Twilight, a collection of eleven interrelated short stories, will be released this spring by Rattling Good Yarns Press. Doblin lives in Brooklyn, New York.