Sunday Reading Series: Michelle Alexander, Erica Stern, & Preeti Vangani

MICHELLE ALEXANDER is an American-Trinidadian poet and interdisciplinary artist, and cofounder of Unwoven Literary & Arts Magazine. She earned her BA from New York University, where she received the Herbert Rubin Prize in Poetry, and holds an MFA from Columbia College Chicago, where she was a Nathan Breitling Poetry Fellow. Her debut collection, A Stone’s Throw from C R A Y, won the New American Prize and is published by New American Press. Her honors include the Furious Flower Poetry Prize and the Breakwater Peseroff Prize. Her recent manuscript was a finalist for the Georgia Poetry Prize. Her work appears in Notre Dame Review and Oxford Poetry.

ERICA STERN’s debut book, Frontier: A Memoir and a Ghost Story, came out from Barrelhouse Books in June 2025. Her writing has also appeared in places such as The Sun, The Iowa Review, Mississippi Review, LitHub, Denver Quarterly and The Wall Street Journal,…