# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/meena-alexander
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:07:59.174Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/meena-alexander"
name: "Meena Alexander"
slug: "meena-alexander"
description: "Meena Alexander was an Indian American poet, scholar, and writer. Born in Allahabad, India, and raised in India and Sudan, Alexander later lived and worked in New York City, where she was a Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center."
tagline: "Poet, scholar, and writer (1951-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Meenaalexander.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1951-02-17"
deathDate: "2018-11-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.818181818181818
  historical:           16.75954133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump