Alexis Nowicki is a writer, publicist, and copy editor who lives in Brooklyn, NY.

She is currently a senior publicist at Viking Penguin. Previously, at Astra House, she ran publicity campaigns for books like Esther Yi’s Y/N and S.H. Fernando Jr.’s The Chronicles of DOOM. Prior to that, she worked at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Read more about her publicity work—featuring placements from NPR to the Approval Matrix—here.

Alexis is also the copy editor of Cake Zine, Hard Pack, and Elastic magazines. She copy edited the forthcoming issue of Third Place Zine.

She has written for Slate, Dirt, and Electric Eel.

Her tweets have been among “The 50 Funniest Tweets From Women In 2024” and “22 Of The Funniest Tweets About Cats And Dogs This Week,” according to HuffPost. She was a 2025 Publishers Weekly Star Watch honoree.

With Maria Robins-Somerville, she runs the quarterly reading series Reading 101 at Night Club 101. The next installment is in February—stay tuned for the date.

She loves email: alexis.nowicki@gmail.com. Instagram is ok, too: @alexisnowicki.