Nadia Alexis

Nadia Alexis is a poet, writer, and photographer born in Harlem to Haitian immigrants. She is the debut author of the hybrid collection, Beyond the Watershed (CavanKerry Press), which was longlisted for the 2025 Maya Angelou Book Award, and a 2022 finalist of the Ghost Peach Press Prize in Poetry. She is featured as one of Poets & Writers' 2026 Ten Best Debut Poets.

Her writing and photography have been published widely, and she has received honors including a Literary Arts Fellowship and two Artist Mini-Grants from the Mississippi Arts Commission, a Poet of the Year Honoree of the Haitian Creatives Digital Awards, a semifinalist in the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, and an honorable mention poetry prize from the Hurston/Wright College Writers Award.

Her photography has been exhibited in several shows in the U.S., Cuba, and virtually. A fellow of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and The Watering Hole, she holds a PhD and MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi.