Alexandra Watson

Alexandra Watson is a multiracial fiction writer and poet from Syracuse, New York. She’s the executive editor of Apogee Journal, which won the 2022 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize, and for which she received the 2019 PEN/Nora Magid Prize for Literary Magazine editing and the 2023 Platinum Review Award for magazine editing from the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in The Nation, The South Carolina Review, The Rumpus, Bennington Review, The Common, Nat. Brut., The Offing, Cake Zine, and others. She’s a Senior Lecturer at Barnard College, where she founded the Creative Writing Fellows program and the Cite Black Barnard Faculty initiative. She lives in the Hudson Valley.