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Hey, FAWM friends! I’m Alyx.

I’m a #queer, #transmasculine / #nonbinary, #audhd human with an increasingly impressive beard.

I generally write folky/acoustic songs, mostly on guitar, but sometimes when I get stuck I reach for other instruments, particularly things in the mandolin family. I recently acquired a banjo, so that might also make an appearance this year. And I ended up winning an auction for a Kravik lyre on ebay at the end of January, so maybe that'll show up, too? It just occurred to me that I've been writing songs for 25 years. That's wild.

All of my recordings will almost certainly be iPhone one-takes. I'd love to do some proper recording of some of my backlog someday, but FAWM for me is about getting the songs out rather than getting them polished. Occasionally in the past I've gotten excited about playing around in Garageband, though, so who knows?

I live in St. Paul, Minnesota with my husband, @fecknom, who is also a musician, and our doggo, Nova, a husky mix we adopted in August 2021. We are a houseful of #neurospicy weirdos (yes, I am including the dog in this), and I love that for us.

I'd be hard-pressed to name a single genre I don't like at least *something* from. I enjoy listening to everything from classical music to death metal.

2024 will be FAWM number seven for me! I'm in my third year in seminary currently (I am agnostic with some heavy animist leanings, going for an MAL in Spiritual Direction...because we religiously traumatized queerdos deserve space to make meaning out of Big Life Stuff, too), so between that and full time work, I'm not totally sure where I'll fit the songwriting in this year. But I'm going to try, and I'm very much looking forward to hearing what y'all come up with, too!

FAWM 2018: 19 songs
FAWM 2019: 18 songs
FAWM 2020: 16 songs
FAWM 2021: 19 songs
FAWM 2022: 3 songs
FAWM 2023: 11 songs
FAWM 2024: ???