janan alexandra is the author of the poetry collection come from (BOA Editions, 2025). As the daughter of a Lebanese mother and Beirut-born American father, janan’s life has been peripatetic, with roots scattered in Cyprus, Lebanon, Pakistan, England, France, and many corners of North America. Her poems and essays have been published in The Kenyon Review, New England Review, the Massachusetts Review, AGNI, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. Winner of the 2023 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry, janan was a 2021–2022 Fulbright Arts Fellow and has received support for her writing from Hedgebrook, the Vermont Studio Center, the Mellon Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center, and the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts.

alexandra moved to Bloomington in 2018 to pursue her MFA in Creative Writing at Indiana University. She left upon graduating and then returned (aka “Bloomeranged”) a few years later, in 2024.

She currently teaches in the English department at Indiana University and at the Monroe County Correctional Center. Alongside writing, janan plays fiddle in a three-piece string band called The Ditch Tea Steepers and is a violinist in the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra.