Alexander Boldizar was the first post-independence Slovak citizen to graduate with a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. Since then, he has been an art gallery director in Bali, an attorney in San Francisco and Prague, a pseudo-geisha in Japan, a hermit in Tennessee, a paleontologist in the Sahara, a porter in the High Arctic, a consultant on Wall Street, an art critic out of Jakarta, and a police-abuse watchdog and Times Square billboard writer in New York City. His The Man Who Saw Seconds won the 2025 Locus Award for science fiction book of the year, the CIBA Mark Twain Grand Prize for best satire of 2024, and was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award and the Foreword Reviews Best Thriller of 2024. He now lives in Vancouver, Canada.