Strnad-About

Alexandra Strnad read English at the University of Cambridge, and graduated with a Master’s in Creative Writing, with Distinction, from the University of Oxford, as well as studying Czech at Charles University. A Czech-British-Australian National, she lived in Prague for several years, and now spends her time between Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the Czech Republic.  She was the 2014 Winner of the Jane Martin Poetry Prize, and a 2016 Winner of the Oxford University Parallel Universe Poetry Competition. Her first poetry pamphlet, H is for Hadeda, was published by Poetry Salzburg, University of Salzburg, in 2017.  Her second poetry pamphlet, Pilgrims, was published by Eyewear Publishing in 2018. Her poetry collection, He Shows Me Where, will be published by Eyewear in 2025.

Alexandra’s poems have been published in the following: Oxford Poetry, Ambit, Other Poetry, Wasafiri, Southword, Tears in the Fence, The Frogmore Papers, Ink, Swear & Tears, The Oxonian Review, Blackbox Manifold, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Kindling, The Cadaverine, The Moth, ASH, Ariadne’s Thread, The Best New British and Irish Poets’ (Eyewear Publishing 2018), The Mays Anthology, Flight: An Anthology of Poetry in Response to the Refugee Crisis, Oxford Student PEN (2016), and various editions of The Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual.

Her debut novel, The Wykehamist, with a release date of 10th March 2025, is available for pre-order here.