Nadia Alexis is a poet, writer, and photographer born and raised in Harlem, New York City to Haitian immigrants. Her debut full-length collection of poetry and photography, Beyond the Watershed, is forthcoming with CavanKerry Press in March 2025, and it was also a finalist for the 2022 Ghost Peach Press Prize. Her writing and photography have been published widely, and she has received several awards and honors including a 2024 Mississippi STAR Teacher Award, 2024 Artist Mini-Grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission, a 2024 Vance Fellowship from the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration, the 2023 Poet of the Year Honoree of the Haitian Creatives Digital Awards, a 2020 semifinalist position in the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, a 2020 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters photography award nomination, and the 2019 honorable mention poetry prize from the Hurston/Wright College Writers Award. Nadia's photography has been exhibited in several shows in the U.S., virtually, and in Cuba. A fellow of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and The Watering Hole, she holds a PhD and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi.
