Alexandra Sheppard (she/her) was born in North London, where she stills lives with her family. Oh My Gods was her first YA Novel.

Alex is also the co-author of Fly High Crew and The Day We Saved The Future in collaboration with the Banjo Brothers and has contributed to Happy Here, an anthology of stories from Black British authors and illustrators. Her second YA novel, Friendship Never Ends, published to great acclaim and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize.

Alex's first novel with Faber, Alyssa and the Spell Garden is a contemporary fantasy set in a small community in North London facing eviction and gentrification with a magical garden at the centre of it. The follow-up, Alyssa and the Enchanted Forest, will be published in June 2025.