Alex Josephy

Alex Josephy lives in London and Italy; she is proud to be pan-European. She has worked as a teacher in English state schools, and as a university lecturer and education adviser in the NHS. Her pamphlet Other Blackbirds was published by Cinnamon Press in 2016 and her collection White Roads (a limited edition of poems set in Italy) by Paekakariki Press in 2018. Her poems have won awards such as the McLellan Prize 2014 and the Battered Moons Prize 2013, and have been placed in the Hippocrates Prize and in the Troubadour Prize top 20.

Her work has been published in The Rialto, Smiths Knoll, The Interpreter’s House, Brittle Star, Artemis, Acumen, Orbis, Domestic Cherry, The Fenland Reed, The Sigh Press in Italy, London Grip (online) and others, and has been included in anthologies. She was poet in residence at Rainham Hall, Essex in June 2016, and in Markham Square, London, in 2017. In 2018 she contributed poems about bumblebees to ‘Fifty Bees’, an arts and ecology collaboration. Alex is a poetry mentor for Cinnamon Press, and writes reviews for London Grip and Envoi. Naked Since Faversham straddles her life between Italy and the UK.