Alex Josephy

Alex lives and writes in East Sussex and Italy. She has worked as a UK state school teacher and university lecturer and as an NHS education adviser. Her published collections include Other Blackbirds (a Cinnamon Press pamphlet, 2016) White Roads ( Paekakariki Press, 2018), Naked Since Faversham (Pindrop Press, 2020) and Again Behold the Stars (a Cinnamon Press pamphlet award winner, 2023).

Her poems have won the McLellan and Battered Moon prizes, been placed in the Troubadour and Hippocrates prizes, and have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies.

A Little Bridge (2026) and Naked Since Faversham (2020) straddle her life between Italy and the UK.