akhim alexis

Akhim Alexis is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago and is a Dornsife Fellow at the University of Southern California, where he is pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature. He is the winner of the McSweeney’s Stephen Dixon Award for Short Fiction and the Brooklyn Caribbean Lit Fest Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean. He was also a finalist for the Sewanee Review Fiction Contest, the Disquiet Prize, Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize, the Grist Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors Contest and the Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize for poetry. Akhim’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.