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 in print and online. 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.

Since 2015, janan has taught poetry and creative writing in schools, libraries, youth arts centers, zoom rooms, and carceral spaces. In addition to language work, janan has facilitated restorative movement classes; nannied for families; welded ice cream scoops; tied oyster nets; tended land and animals; built furniture; baked bread; painted houses; and busked fiddle tunes to make a living. She currently teaches in the English department at Indiana University and at the Monroe County Correctional Center, and is a Poetry Editor at The Rumpus. 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.