About Alix

“Poetry, photography, spirituality: 

my life is about tending 

to the lights and darks

in equal measure.”

Alix Klingenberg is a poet, spiritual director, and creative dilettante. She describes herself as a cross between an ethereal woodland creature and an alternative 90’s girl stereotype and is only half-kidding. Alix graduated from Oberlin College in 2003 with a degree in Visual Art where she studied film and photography but also took way too many classes in Spanish literature and personality psychology to not have it count for something.  She is obsessed with people dynamics, myth, philosophy, and imagination. 

After making her living as a wedding and portrait photographer for ten years, Alix returned to school to become a Unitarian Universalist Minister. She received her Master of Divinity in 2018 from Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago and began her own business as a spiritual director and creative arts minister.

Alix has been writing poetry for her entire life and remembers wanting to submit a poem to Highlights Magazine when she was 8, but never got up the courage.  Her inner child is so pleased to now be published in several literary magazines, with 2 published collections to her name.

Alix currently lives in Melrose, MA with her family, 2 black cats, and a ridiculous dog named Cricket. She is queer and polyamorous and believes poetry can heal our connection with nature and with ourselves.  With a passion for social justice, anti-racism, intersectional feminism, community, and the natural world, Alix writes from a place of spiritual transformation. 

She has written two poetry collections, Secrets & Stars and Bread Sex Trees.

To read and engage with her in community you can follow her on Instagram @AlixKlingenberg or on Facebook @Alix Klingenberg, Writer.