Alexia Underwood

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Alexia Underwood is an award-winning writer and journalist who was born in Kuwait and grew up in Egypt and the United States. Her work appears in The Guardian, The New Republic, The Nation, The Paris Review Daily, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from The New School and is working on a novel.

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Agios Lazarus

Alexia Underwood  | 
Issue 75.2 Spring 2026

She pulled out a bright map that looked like it had been produced for children and spread it on the counter, pointing out the path with one lime-green fingernail. The church was a short walk away along the shore.