Nadia Alexis

Workshop Description

In this generative workshop, participants will write new poetry and engage with contemporary poetry and photography that delve into the realms of the self, memory, and ritual. We will enter new doorways and reimagine our understandings of the past, present, and future.

Together, we’ll consider how ritual grounds us, creates sanctuaries, invokes spirit and the sun, makes space for devotion, breaks us into something new, and more.

Meeting Details

Dates: Thursdays, Nov 20 – Dec 18

Times: 5:30 pm–7:30 pm CST (6:30-8:30 pm EST)

Where: Live on Zoom (no recordings will be available)

Who: BIPOC women, femme-identified trans, and nonbinary poets

Note: We will skip Thursday, Nov 27 due the Thanksgiving holiday

About Me

Nadia Alexis is a poet, writer, and photographer in Harlem to Haitian immigrants. She is the debut author of the hybrid collection of poetry and photography, Beyond the Watershed (CavanKerry Press, 2025), a finalist for the 2022 Ghost Peach Press Prize in Poetry.

Her writing and photography have been published widely, and she has received honors including a 2025 Literary Arts Fellowship and a 2024 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 in the 2020 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, a 2020 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters photography award nomination, and a 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., Cuba, and virtually at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI). 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 lives in Mississippi.