Nadia Alexis

Nadia Alexis is a poet, writer, and photographer born and raised in Harlem, New York City to Haitian immigrants, and she currently resides in Mississippi. She is the author of the debut hybrid collection of poetry and photography, Beyond the Watershed (CavanKerry Press, March 2025), which was longlisted for the 2025 Maya Angelou Book Award, and 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 2025 Literary Arts Fellowship and a 2024 and 2026 Artist Mini-Grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission, a 2024 Mississippi STAR Teacher Award, 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 semifinalist position in the 2020 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, a nomination for the 2020 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters photography award, and an honorable mention prize in the 2019 Hurston/Wright College Writers Award for poetry. Nadia's photography has been exhibited in several shows in the U.S., Cuba, and virtually.  

A fellow of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, The Watering Hole, and the Poets & Writers Get the Word Out Publicity Incubator, she holds a PhD and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi. She currently resides in Mississippi, where she teaches creative writing to youth and adult writers.