Nadia is a poet, writer, and photographer, born and raised in Harlem, to Haitian immigrants. She is the author of Beyond the Watershed, a collection of poetry and photography published by CavanKerry Press in March 2025. The collection was also a finalist for the 2022 Ghost Peach Press Prize.

Her writing has appeared in Poets & Writers, The Global South, Shenandoah, Wild Imperfections: An Anthology of Womanist Poems, and others. Her photography has been featured in Forgotten Lands, The Southern Register, MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora, and more. She has received several honors, including a Literary Arts Fellowship and a Artist Mini-Grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission, a Mississippi STAR Teacher Award, a Vance Fellowship from the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration, a Poet of the Year Honoree of the Haitian Creatives Digital Awards, a semifinalist in the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, a Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters photography award nomination, and an honorable mention prize in the Hurston/Wright College Writers Award for poetry.

Alexis's photography has been exhibited internationally and virtually. As part of an Independent Scholars Fellowship for early-career artists and scholars of color, she exhibited at the 2019 Havana Biennial in a show titled The Spirit That Resides, with Carrie Mae Weems as their mentor. A fellow of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, The Watering Hole, and the Poets & Writers Get the Word Out Publicity Incubator, she holds a PhD and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi.