Alexa Luborsky is a writer of Western Armenian and Eastern European Jewish descent. She is the 2023 Creative Writing Grant Recipient from the International Armenian Literary Alliance for her work-in-progress poetry collection on diaspora and genocidal aftermaths. Her poems and hybrid works have appeared in journals such as AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Guernica, and West Branch, among others. Currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Virginia, she serves as the interviews editor for Poetry Northwest. You can find more of her work at alexaluborsky.com.
Girl A maintains the story of Girl B about a brother, a father, a tree, and
a kiss. / The story became the thirst for a story, while the river watched.