Alec Ash

Welcome to my corner of the web. I'm a literary editor, freelance writer and China watcher.

In London, I run the FiveBooks interview feature at the literary website The Browser, which recommends writing worth reading from around the web.

I studied English literature at Oxford, where I edited The Isis magazine.

Then I lived in Beijing for two years, where I learnt Mandarin and wrote journalism and a blog about Chinese youth.

My narrative profile of a Tibetan in China will be published in Chinese Characters, a book of reportage forthcoming from UC Press.

My articles have been published in The Economist, Prospect and FT Magazine.

On the side I edit the Anthill, a "writers' colony" of new narrative, vignettes, opinion and fiction.