janan alexandra

janan alexandra is the author of Come From (BOA Editions, 2025). Her poem “on form & matter” won the 2023 Adrienne Rich Award, and her poem “Open Letter to a Politician” is featured in Lit Hub’s “50 Contemporary Poets on the Best Poems They Read in 2024.” She teaches creative writing at Indiana University, edits poetry for The Rumpus, and helps curate Mondays Are Free, a Substack collaboration by poets Ross Gay and Pat Rosal.