Alec Gewirtz is Editor and Publisher of Kismet, a new literary magazine of spirituality, religion, and mysticism. He’s also the CEO of Nearness, a cooperative organization fostering spiritual community for nonreligious people.

His work with Nearness has been featured in The Atlantic and The Washington Post and on BBC and NPR. A graduate of Princeton University, where he studied religion, and a former Fulbright Research Fellow in theology at the University of Toronto, he lives in New York City.