Nadia Alexis
Nadia Alexis, a Harlem, New York, native, is a poet, writer, photographer, and daughter of Haitian immigrants. Her writing has been published in Poets & Writers, The Global South, Shenandoah, Wild Imperfections: An Anthology of Womanist Poems, and elsewhere. A fellow of both the Watering Hole and the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, she has received several honors, including the 2023 Poet of the Year of the Haitian Creatives Digital Awards, a 2020 semifinalist of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, and 2019 Honorable Mention Poetry Prize from the Hurston/Wright College Writers Award. She holds an MFA and a PhD from the University of Mississippi. Beyond the Watershed (CavanKerry Press) is her first collection of poems.
Nadia Alexis, a Harlem, New York, native, is a poet, writer, photographer, and daughter of Haitian immigrants. Her writing has been published in Poets & Writers, The Global South, Shenandoah, Wild Imperfections: An Anthology of Womanist Poems, and elsewhere. A fellow of both the Watering Hole and the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, she has received several honors, including the 2023 Poet of the Year of the Haitian Creatives Digital Awards, a 2020 semifinalist of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, and 2019 Honorable Mention Poetry Prize from the Hurston/Wright College Writers Award. She holds an MFA and a PhD from the University of Mississippi. Beyond the Watershed (CavanKerry Press) is her first collection of poems.
Artwork by Charlie Buckley, Soybean Neon
