Alexandra Harris is a Professorial Fellow in English at the University of Birmingham. She reviews fiction and non-fiction, mostly for The Guardian, and works regularly with galleries on exhibition catalogues. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been a judge for the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the Royal Academy of Arts Wollaston Award, the Authors' Foundation Awards, and the Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism. 

Her latest book is Weatherland: Writers and Artists under English Skies – an exploration of imaginative responses to the weather in England across centuries, which was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize, and adapted in ten parts for BBC Radio 4. Her book Romantic Moderns (2010) traced connections between some of the most brilliant artists and writers of the twentieth century, including Virginia Woolf, John Piper, Bill Brandt, Eric Ravilious, Rex Whistler, and the Sitwells.