​Alexia Anthony, a writer from Jackson, Mississippi, is President of the Magnolia Literacy Project’s Blossoms Mother-Daughter Reading Club. A 2025 graduate of Murrah High School, she is the Founder and President of the school’s book club. Alexia has won multiple awards for her poetry in the Scholastic Art and Writing competition. Her first piece of work was published when she was just nine years old. Since then, she has flourished as a writer. For the past two years, she completed the Catherine Coleman Literary Arts, Food, and Social Justice Summer Program for young writers across the state and in the city of Jackson. Sponsored by the Margaret Walker Center and Jackson State University, this initiative engages the rich legacy of creative writing in Mississippi, the tradition of southern food, and the history of social justice movements in communities. Alexia’s essay detailing her experience at the 2023 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival, “Energy, Inspiration, and My Love for Writing”, was accepted by the Callaloo Journal for publication in the November 2024 issue. Alexia will start her undergraduate studies at Xavier University in the fall of 2025.