Alexis Lathem

Alexis Lathem is the author of the poetry collection Alphabet of Bones and two chapbooks. Her poems and essays have appeared in About Place Journal, AWP Writer’s Chronicle, Beloit Poetry Journal, Chelsea Review, Gettysburg Review, The Hopper, Hunger Mountain, Saranac Review, Solstice, Spoon River, West Branch, and other journals. She was a founder and coordinator of the North American Megadam Resistance Alliance and Friends of Nitassinan, a support group for the Innu in their resistance to hydroelectric projects.  An emeritus Black Earth Institute fellow, she is a four-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, a recipient of the Chelsea Award for Poetry, Bread Loaf scholarship, Marble House residency, Vermont Arts Council grant, and the Publisher’s Award for Canada’s Alternatives Journal for her article on damming the Romaine River. She lives on Abenaki land in the Winooski River Valley in Vermont.