Dr. Nadia Alexis is a poet, photographer, and educator born in Harlem, NYC to Haitian immigrants. Her debut full-length book of poems and photographs, titled Watersheds, will be published by CavanKerry Press in Spring 2025. The collection was a finalist for the 2022 Ghost Peach Press Prize. Her poetry, nonfiction, and photography have graced numerous publications, including Poets & Writers, The Global South, Indiana Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Register, Wild Imperfections: An Anthology of Womanist Poems, MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora, and others. She is the 2019 honorable mention poetry prize winner of the Hurston/Wright College Writers Award, a 2020 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters photography award nominee, and a 2020 semifinalist of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest. She is also a fellow of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and The Watering Hole. Her photographs have been shown in several exhibitions in the U.S. and Cuba. She relocated to Mississippi in 2016 and earned her an MFA in Creative Writing – Poetry and PhD in English with a Creative Writing Concentration and from the University of Mississippi. Since then, she has imparted her expertise through teaching a variety of courses, including creative writing for high school and middle school students, college-level subjects such as American literature, Contemporary Black Poetry, African American Nature Writing, freshman writing, and creative writing, as well as mentoring adult writers through community programs.