Alexis Woodburn is a Canadian American novelist and former court reporter based in Portland, Oregon. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, she studied journalism at the University of Oregon and spent a decade covering federal courts and labor investigations for newspapers and magazines in the Pacific Northwest. Her fiction explores the fault lines where technology, law, and ordinary lives collide. Woodburn's debut suspense novel was a Strand Critics Award finalist, and her short work has appeared in regional anthologies. She has taught narrative nonfiction at Portland State University, volunteers with the Oregon Innocence Project, and restores a 1970s floor loom in her spare time. She lives in the St. Johns neighborhood with her partner and a retired racing greyhound.
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