Alex Irvine

Irvine has a B.A. from the University of Michigan (1991), an M.A. from the University of Maine (1996), and a Ph.D. from the University of Denver (2003). == Career ==

Irvine has worked on alternate reality games including The Beast (2001) and I Love Bees, and is the writer of the Facebook game Marvel Avengers Alliance (2012). He first gained notability with his Locus Award–winning 2002 novel A Scattering of Jades (which also won the Crawford Award in 2003) and the stories that would form the 2003 collection Unintended Consequences. He has also published The Grail Quest novel One King, One Soldier (2004), and the World War II-era historical fantasy The Narrows (2005). As well as writing about comics, he has written a number of comic book series, including one featuring Daimon Hellstrom for the Marvel Comics imprint Max, Daredevil Noir, and Iron Man: The Rapture. == Personal life ==

He is married with his wife Lindsay and have two children, a boy and a girl who are twins. ==Bibliography==

• Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015) ==Awards and honors==

As listed in Contemporary Authors. • Lennie Isaacs Memorial Award, Clarion Writer's Workshop, 1993 • Steve Grady Poetry Award, University of Maine, 1995 • Albert Morton Turner Essay Prize, University of Maine, 1995 • Technology in the First-Year English Classroom Award, University of Denver, 1999 • Travel and dissertation research grant, ColRoMorA Family Foundation, 1999 • Best Web site of the Year, Entertainment Weekly, for The Beast, 2001 • Best Ideas of the Year, The New York Times, for The Beast, 2001 • Pushcart Prize nomination for "Snapdragons", 2002 • Best First Novel, Locus, for A Scattering of Jades, 2003 • Best First Novel, International Horror Guild, for A Scattering of Jades, 2003 • Crawford Award for best first novel, for A Scattering of Jades, 2003 • International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, for A Scattering of Jades, 2003 • New England Press Award for investigative journalism, 2004 • International Game Developers Association award for innovation, for I Love Bees, 2005 • Critic's choice award, 48-hour Film Project, for "Music Box", 2006 • The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, for "Wizard's Six", 2007 ==Notes==