Alexa Doran

Poet

Tallahassee, FL

Florida US

Email:

aed16e@my.fsu.edu

Website:

www.alexadoran.com/

Twitter/X:

@realLEXcalibur

Author's Bio

Alexa Doran is currently working on her PhD in Poetry at Florida State University. Her full-length collection DM Me, Mother Darling won the 2020 May Sarton Poetry Prize and will be published by Bauhan Publishing in Spring 2021. She is also the author of the chapbook Nightsink, Faucet Me a Lullaby (Bottlecap Press 2019). You can look for work from Doran in recent or upcoming issues of Passages North, Literary Mama, THE BOILER, and Harvard Review, among others.

Education:

University of North Carolina, Wilmington MFA

Publications & Prizes

Book:

DM Me, Mother Darling (Bauhan Publishing, 2021)

Prizes won:

2020 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize

2018 First Place in the Martha's Vineyard Creative Writing Institute Parent/Writer Fellowship

2016 First Place in the Sidney Lanier Poetry Competition

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now:

A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

White

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

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Last update: Feb 26, 2021