Alexa Luborsky

Alexa Luborsky is a writer and multimedia artist of Western Armenian and Jewish descent. She has received support from organizations such as the International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA), the Carolyn Moore Writing Residency, and Artist Trust. Her poems and hybrid works have appeared in the Academy of American Poets University Prize Series, Adroit, AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Ninth Letter, The Rumpus, and West Branch, among others. Currently, she is the interviews editor at Poetry Northwest, a Non-residential Fellow at USC Shoah Foundation, and a visiting scholar at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. She is at work on a project that realigns archival practices towards survivor imaginaries, using houshamadyan and yizker-bikher, or “memorial books,” as an alternative to institutional preservation practices of genocide. 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.