Nadia Alexis is a poet, writer, and photographer born and raised in Harlem, New York City to Haitian immigrants. She is the debut author of Beyond the Watershed (CavanKerry Press, March 2025), a full-length collection of poetry and photography, that was also a finalist for the 2022 Ghost Peach Press Prize.

Her writing and photography have been published widely. A Pushcart Prize nominated poet, she has received several awards and 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 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 and participant 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 Southwest Mississippi, where she teaches creative writing.