Alexandra Watson is a Lecturer in First-Year Writing and English at Barnard College, where she has won innovative teaching awards from Barnard and Columbia’s Provost’s Offices. She is the co-founder and executive editor of Apogee Journal, which won the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize, and for which she received the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Literary Magazine editing.
Her poetry and fiction have appeared in The Nation, The Offing, The South Carolina Review, The Rumpus, The Common, [PANK], Redivider, Nat. Brut., Yes Poetry, The Bennington Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and others. Her short story “Even Days” won the Ronald Moran prize in fiction from the South Carolina Review. She holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and a BA in English and Literary Arts from Brown University. She is working on a novel and a poetry collection.
