White Roads

Alex Josephy lives in London and Italy. Her poetry pamphlet Other Blackbirds was published by Cinnamon Press in March 2016. Her poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies in print and online, and have won awards including the McLellan prize 2014 and the Battered Moons prize 2013. She was poet in residence at Rainham Hall, Essex in June 2016, and in Markham Square, London, in 2017.

Silvana Biasutti, originally from Milan, now lives in Sant’Angelo in Colle and is well known for her sensitive drawings of the Val D’Orcia where many of these poems are set. She has made drawings for a wine calendar, L’agenda del Brunello di Montalcino 2012 (Metamorfosi) and an Italian book of days, Un Anno a Montalcino.