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Lex Santí
Jan 22, 20235 min read
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Writing
Connection is where meaning begins.
Writing is how I listen.
How I make sense.
How I stay connected.
88 pieces · nearly twenty-five years · essays, reviews, dispatches & the road to The Song of the Midnight Rider
From the Road
Some essays begin as photographs.
Phnom Penh, 2011 — from the self-funded documentary on human trafficking. The camera came first; the writing followed.
The Writer
Lex E. Santí
Lex E. Santí is a novelist, poet, and essayist — the son of Cuban refugees, raised in Ithaca, New York, and shaped by years abroad: Peace Corps service in Romania, seasons in Spain and Seoul, a documentary in Cambodia. He founded Our Stories Literary Journal, which he edited for sixteen years, and holds an MFA in fiction from George Mason University. His debut novel, The Song of the Midnight Rider, arrived in 2026, after four collections of poetry and the story collection Homer’s Last Line. He lives in Trumansburg, New York, where he writes — and practices as a psychotherapist.
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