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Alexandra Jane Patterson

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Alexandra Jane Patterson

Alexandra Jane Patterson is a journalist, editor and literary translator who began working in journalism at sixteen. Her writing has appeared in Steeze Magazine, L’Europeo Bulgaria and Variety, among others, and she is drawn to stories about memory, grief and identity.

Published in The Astyanax

  • New this week · History · Essay

    Wait for Me, I'm Gone!

    Why we have always tried to raise the dead, from Homer’s underworld to Tolkien’s Necromancer, and what that says about grief.

    16 October 2026