"Ivan and Misha" won the Northern CA Book Award for Fiction and was a Finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. He received the Gina Berriault Award from San Francisco State University. Alenyikov's short stories have appeared in The Chicago Quarterly Review, The Georgia Review, The Catarmaran Literary Reader, and The James White Review, Foglifter, The Forge, and have been anthologized in Best Gay Stories 2008, 2011, 2014 and Tartts Four: Incisive Fiction from Emerging Writers. His essays have appeared in the Gay & Lesbian Review. His story, "Arithmetic," was performed on stage by the acclaimed Word for Word theater company. He was a MacDowell Fellow, and was nominated for Pushcart Prizes in 2007 and 2017. His most recent collection is "Sorrow's Drive: A Quartet." Raised in New York City, Alenyikov has worked as a bookstore clerk, a clinical psychologist, a cab driver, and an interactive media writer. He lives in San Francisco.