## SHORT BIO (50 words)
Alex Rivera crafts stories that unearth hidden family legacies through music. A former concert pianist, she weaves emotional depth into her prose. In *The Forgotten Melody*, a woman uncovers her grandmother's WWII-era compositions inside an antique piano, unlocking buried secrets. Now baking sourdough in Brooklyn while plotting her next novel.

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## MEDIUM BIO (150 words)
Alex Rivera turned her fingers from piano keys to the page after two decades as a touring musician. Her debut, *The Forgotten Melody*, traces a pianist's discovery of her grandmother's clandestine WWII compositions stashed in a battered upright, blending melody with the sharp sting of family betrayal.  
Alex wrote her first stories between gigs, publishing shorts in *The Atlantic* and *Ploughshares*. She draws from her own uprooted childhood—shuttling between cities with her performer parents—to explore how silence shapes inheritance. A daily walker with her rescue mutt Luna, she ferments kombucha in her Brooklyn kitchenette and teaches piano to neighborhood kids.  
Currently, she's at work on a novel about jazz exiles in 1950s Paris. (142 words)

## LONG BIO (300 words)
Alex Rivera grew up chasing her parents' shadows across stages from Carnegie Hall to smoky jazz clubs, her small hands already picking out melodies on borrowed keyboards. By 18, she was a rising concert pianist, headlining recitals and recording Chopin with orchestras in Europe. But a hand injury at 35 forced a pivot: those nimble fingers, once dancing over ivories, began tapping out words instead.  
She started small—short stories submitted on a whim, landing in *The Atlantic*, *Ploughshares*, and *Tin House*. The threads of displacement and unspoken grief from her nomadic youth wove into her first novel, *The Forgotten Melody*. Here, protagonist Lila inherits an old piano that yields her grandmother's hidden WWII scores, scribbled during resistance work in occupied France—notes that double as coded messages, exposing betrayals long interred. Alex's prose hums with the tension between harmony and dissonance, mirroring her obsession with how music encodes what words can't.  
Influenced by Marguerite Duras's spare intensity and W.G. Sebald's layered memory, Alex builds worlds where ordinary objects—a warped key, a faded photograph—crack open histories. She's since penned essays on the performer's solitude for *The Paris Review* and leads workshops blending composition with narrative at Brooklyn's Center for Fiction.  
Off the page, she's the type to rise at dawn for a five-mile loop around Prospect Park with Luna, her wiry terrier mix, stopping to note birdsong in a battered journal. Evenings find her kneading dough for crusty loaves or tinkering with a vintage synthesizer.  
Brooklyn-based, Alex is drafting her second book, a tale of a saxophonist piecing together his father's silenced life amid 1950s Harlem rent parties. Her work reminds us: every silence holds a score waiting to be played. (298 words)

## FIRST-PERSON "ABOUT ME" (100 words)
I write because music taught me stories live in the spaces between notes. After years touring as a pianist—Chopin one night, Bach the next— an injury handed me a pen instead. *The Forgotten Melody* poured out: my protagonist pries open an old piano to find her grandmother's WWII secret scores, full of coded heartbreak.  
I'm that neighbor kneading sourdough at midnight or walking my mutt Luna till the city's quiet. Brooklyn suits my wandering soul. Grab a coffee; let's talk hidden melodies. Next up: jazz ghosts in Harlem. (92 words)

## SOCIAL HANDLE BIOS
- **Twitter/X (160 chars):** Pianist fingers now type family secrets. *The Forgotten Melody*: WWII scores hidden in a piano crack open betrayals. Brooklyn baker chasing notes & dough. @AlexRiveraWrites #LiteraryFiction (128 chars)

- **Instagram (150 chars):** Former pianist spilling ink on lost songs.  
*The Forgotten Melody*—grandma's WWII piano hides coded compositions & ghosts.  
Sourdough rises | Luna runs | Stories brew.  
📝🎹🐕 #ForgottenMelody (137 chars)

- **LinkedIn (220 chars):** Alex Rivera, author of *The Forgotten Melody*, a novel uncovering WWII resistance scores concealed in a family piano. Former touring concert pianist with recordings for Deutsche Grammophon; short fiction in *The Atlantic*, *Ploughshares*. Brooklyn-based storyteller and piano instructor. Open to speaking, workshops. (214 chars)

## AUTHOR PHOTO CAPTION
Alex Rivera in her Brooklyn studio, surrounded by sheet music and a half-kneaded loaf of sourdough.

## MEDIA CONTACT BLOCK
Alex Rivera  
alex@alexriverawrites.com  
(555) 123-4567  
www.alexriverawrites.com  
Twitter/X: @AlexRiveraWrites | Instagram: @alexriverawrites | LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alexriverawrites