Alexa Luborsky…
…is a writer and multimedia artist of Western Armenian and Eastern European Jewish descent. She is the 2023 IALA Creative Writing Grant recipient for her work-in-progress collection of poetry on diaspora and its aftermaths. Her poems and hybrid works have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as Adroit, AGNI, Black Warrior Review, The Rumpus, and West Branch, among others. She is an MFA candidate in poetry, an H. Kruger Kaprielian Scholar and a Rachel Winer Manin Jewish Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow at the University of Virginia. Alexa is the interviews editor at Poetry Northwest. Born in Toronto and raised in Rhode Island, she currently resides on the ancestral homeland and traditional territory of the Monacan Indian Nation in Charlottesville, VA. You can most likely find her at the woodshop or learning a folk dance if she’s not at her writing desk.