About Alexandra Watson

Alexandra Watson is a co-founder and executive editor of Apogee Journal, a national publication dedicated to highlighting marginalized voices in literature and the arts, where she has secured grant funding for community writing workshops through the New York State Council of the Arts and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She has taught in Columbia's Undergraduate Writing program and at the nonprofit college access program Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America, where she served as Assistant Director of Writing Instruction. She worked as an adjunct writing consultant in both Columbia and Baruch College's writing programs. She began teaching at Barnard in 2015. Her fiction, poetry, and interviews have appeared in Nat. Brut., Redivider, PANK, Lit Hub, the James Franco Review, and Apogee. She is the recipient of the 2019 PEN/Nora Magid Prize for Literary Magazine editing. She's working on her debut novel.