Austin Alexis

Discipline: Poetry

Based In: New York, NY

Year at Millay: 1981

Awards/Honors: Award Winner, Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, Broadside Lotus Press, Inc., Detroit, MI (2013); Artist-in-Residence, Poetry, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, Taos, NM (2004, 2000, 1984); Participant, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT (1999); Artist-in-Residence, VCCA Residency, Amherst, VA.

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/austin-alexis-1614a711

Austin Alexis is the author of the chapbooks Lovers and Drag Queens and For Lincoln & Other Poems, both from Poets Wear Prada, as well as the full-length poetry collection Privacy Issues from Broadside Lotus Press (20th Annual Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award). His work has appeared in Rattle, Barrow Street, The Journal, Flash Boulevard, 10 by 10 Flash Fiction, Hawaii Pacific Review, Paterson Literary Review, and in other journals and anthologies.