Posted 2:00 pm Thursday, July 28, 2022
Nadia Alexis is the new Literary Arts instructor for the Mississippi School of the Arts.
The New York native moves to Brookhaven from Oxford, where he most recently taught at the University of Mississippi.
Born to Haitian immigrants in Harlem, Alexis is a poet, photographer, educator and organizer. He has a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Union College, where he also studied African Studies and French. She is completing her doctorate from Ole Miss in English this summer, with a concentration in creative writing. He also has a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the university, where he teaches black literature and first-year writing courses.
Alexis has published poetry and prose in many magazines and publications, as well as photography. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award 2020 in photography. Among many other awards, Alexis has received poetry grants from the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, The Watering Hole and an independent study program with Carrie Mae Weems.
His photography has been exhibited in Oxford, Detroit and Havana, Cuba, as well as at the African Diaspora Institute of the Caribbean Cultural Center in Harlem.