Career
Alexis began his artistic career in the theatre, and has held the position of playwright-in-residence at the Canadian Stage Company. His short play Lambton, Kent, first produced and performed in 1995, was released as a book in 1999. His first published work of fiction, Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa (1994), was short-listed for the Commonwealth Prize (Canada and Caribbean region).
His first novel Childhood was published in 1998.
Alexis published Ingrid and the Wolf, his first work of juvenile fiction, in 2005. The book was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General"s Award for English-language children"s literature at the 2006 Governor General"s Awards.
Alexis wrote the libretto for James Rolfe"s opera Aeneas and Dido, which premiered at Toronto Masque Theatre in 2007. His novel Asylum was published in 2008, and is set in Ottawa during the government of Brian Mulroney.
In 2014 Alexis published Pastoral, the first in a planned series of five novels on philosophical themes.
The third novel, The Hidden Keys, is slated for publication in 2016. Alexis lives and works in Toronto, where he has hosted programming for Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio, reviews books for The Globe and Mail, and is a contributing editor for This Magazine.
