Alex Pitre

Alex Pitre recently completed a decade long journey for a Bachelor of Arts with CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies with a dual concentration in Performativity in New Media Arts and Critical and Contemporary Writing through the guidance of Katherine Behar, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Meredith Mowder, and ZhenZhen Qi. During Alex’s recent studies, they were awarded the Thomas W. Smith Academic Fellowship and won second place poetry prize for The Sydney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program in 2018. Prior to seeking this aforementioned undergraduate degree, they had completed many hours (in no particular order) hiking and camping, farming, sewing, knitting, babywearing, providing full-spectrum doula support, tattooing, fermenting vegetables, dancing, and performing in Maine, in Bali, in NYC, in Louisiana with University of Louisiana at Lafayette, with Hope’s Edge Farm, with Garth Fagan Dance, with Yayasan Bumi Sehat, with The Doula Project and with so many others. Currently Alex has a particular interest in words, natural fibers, games, and coding languages’ semantic morphology. Originally from the Cajun Heartland of Louisiana, Alex owes much of their point of view and humor to Cajun culture and they are continually confused amidst the sentiments of the Northeastern United States where they have now lived for nine years.