About me
Alexandra Watson is a fiction writer and poet from Syracuse, NY, currently based in Newburgh, NY. She’s the executive editor of Apogee Journal, a publication providing a platform for marginalized artists and writers to explore identity and its intersections. For her work with Apogee, she received the 2019 PEN/Nora Magid Prize for Literary Magazine editing and the 2023 Platinum Review Award 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, and others. She’s a Senior Lecturer at Barnard College.
