Alexander M. Rigby is the New York Times bestselling editor of seven nonfiction titles. He is an Executive Editor at DK, an imprint of Penguin Random House. An avid outdoorsman who enjoys hiking in the wilderness, Alexander has visited all 63 national parks in the United States and is the author of the upcoming children’s book The Nature of Our National Parks, due from Tra Publishing in spring 2026. He is the founder of the literary magazine Allegory Ridge. Alexander holds an MFA from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine. Alexander is the Social Media Chair of the Penguin Random House LGBTQ+ Network, and is the curator of the network’s official Instagram channel @prhlgbtq. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his husband and their Portuguese Water Dog, Copper Atticus.