Alcy Leyva is an award-winning Bronx-born multi-genre writer. His first Young Adult Fiction book the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life ( Green Writers Press, 2024) won the Gold Indie Award in YA Fiction for Foreword Reviews and a Silver Nautilus YA 2024 Fiction Award. His short stories have appeared in two award-winning collections. His fiction, personal essays, poetry, and everything in between has been published in over fifteen different websites and magazines including The Millions and The Rumpus. His critical reviews have been featured in 2016’s “Contemporary Literary Criticism” (published by Laymen Poupard) and have been translated into both Italian and French. He currently resides in New York City and teaches English Literature