A Poetry Reading with Nadia Alexis, Silvina López Medin, and Elizabeth Zuba (In-person)

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 Literary Arts Fellowship and a Artist Mini-Grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission, Poet of the Year Honoree of the Haitian Creatives Digital Awards, a semifinalist in the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, a Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters photography award nominee, and a 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,…