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Alexa Doran [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Tallahassee, FL
Florida US
Email: 
aed16e@my.fsu.edu
Bio: 

Alexa Doran is currently working on her PhD in Poetry at Florida State University. Her full-length collection DM Me, Mother Darling won the 2020 May Sarton Poetry Prize and will be published by Bauhan Publishing in Spring 2021. She is also the author of the chapbook Nightsink, Faucet Me a Lullaby (Bottlecap Press 2019). You can look for work from Doran in recent or upcoming issues of Passages North, Literary Mama, THE BOILER, and Harvard Review, among others. 

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Twitter/X: 
@realLEXcalibur
Website: 
https://www.alexadoran.com/ [2]
Prizes won: 

2020 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize

2018 First Place in the Martha's Vineyard Creative Writing Institute Parent/Writer Fellowship

2016 First Place in the Sidney Lanier Poetry Competition

 

 

 

 

Education: 
University of North Carolina, Wilmington
What I'm reading now: 
A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/alexa_doran [2] https://www.alexadoran.com/