Sunday ZOOM May 18th, 2025 Nadia Alexis

Nadia Alexis is a poet, writer, and photographer born to Haitian immigrants in Harlem, NYC. She is the author of Beyond the Watershed (CavanKerry Press, 2025), a hybrid poetry and photography collection that was also a finalist for the Ghost Peach Press Prize. Her writing and photography have been published widely.

She has received several honors, including a Literary Arts Fellowship and a Mini-Grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission, a Poet of the Year Honoree of the Haitian Creatives Digital Awards, a semifinalist of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, an honorable mention poetry prize for the Hurston/Wright College Writers Award, and several Pushcart Prize nominations. A fellow of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and The Watering Hole, she holds an English - Creative Writing PhD and a Poetry MFA from the University of Mississippi. She lives in Southwest Mississippi where she continues to teach and make art. 

Nadia’s most recent poetry publication is "Letter to My Friend Robert" which was reprinted in The Global South and is available online, HERE.