Josa Keyes

Previously known as Josa Young, Josa Keyes has reverted to her maiden name as of July 2018 for all purposes. Anything new is published under the name Josa Keyes.

A Vogue Talent Contest finalist while still at Cambridge University, she has worked as an editor and writer for Vogue, Country Living, the Times and many other broadsheets and glossies.

She began producing digital content in 1995, which led to a career shift from paper to digital. She started blogging in 2000 (before it was called blogging), and adopted social media in 2007. She is now a content designer working for big brands and gov.uk.

Her first novel, One Apple Tasted, was published in 2009 by Elliot & Thompson. The second, Sail Upon the Land, was long-listed for the Historical Novel Society prize in 2015. My Love Life & Other Disasters, a collection of poems, is published 1 June 2021.

In 2019, she achieved Distinction and the Faculty Outstanding Dissertation Prize for her Creative Writing Master's from Brunel University London, supervised by Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo. Previously, for her Oxbridge entrance exam, she was tutored by Penelope Fitzgerald who won the Booker in 1979. She correctly predicted Bernardine would win exactly 40 years later.

She lives in London where she performs her poetry.

Find out more at www.josakeyes.co.uk

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