Contact
My agent is Caroline Dawnay at United Agents. For enquiries relating to publishing and writing, please contact her assistant Eleanor Horn at
The publicist for The Rising Down is Lauren Nicoll at Faber:
For academic and research-related enquiries, my university address is [email protected].
Unfortunately, due to Long Covid, I am currently not able to take on much new work and I am not currently booking in-person events. You’re most welcome to be in touch if you’d like to register interest for the longer term.
Please credit the photographer named when using portraits from this site.
Photo: Will May
Photo: Geraint Lewis. Click image for high res.
Photo: Geraint Lewis. Click image for high res.
Photo: Paul Murray
More from Alexandra
On Woolf
Secret Life of Books podcast on the The Waves
'Woolf in Winter', a published lecture on seasons, rituals, ice and love.
'A Walk of One's Own', four radio programmes following Woolf on foot.
On artists
Ashmolean NOW exhibition from November 2026: Samuel Palmer and Garry Fabian Miller. My catalogue essay is called 'Magic Circles'.
Art, War, and Resurrection. An essay for Revisiting Modern British Art, ed. by Jo Baring. This work on 'resurrection' grew from thinking about illness, revival, and not getting better.
On history
A rural history classic from Virago: I introduce a new edition of Mary Chamberlain's Fenwomen, now reissued in a 50th anniversary edition.