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. Alexa is currently a Summer Graduate Fellow at the Center for Advanced Genocide Research at USC and serves as the interviews editor at Poetry Northwest. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Virginia. You can most likely find her at the woodshop, learning a folk dance, eating an apricot, or otherwise engaged in attempts at embodiment with varying degrees of success, if she’s not at her writing desk.