Alexandra Dodd is a writer, editor, and social/animal/environmental justice advocate. She has contributed texts to numerous books, art catalogues, monographs, and exhibition projects that bring together visual, literary, and archival cultures—particularly in ‘post’-colonial, ‘post’-Apartheid, and ‘post’-traumatic contexts.
These include The Interpreters: South Africa’s new non-fiction (Soutie Press, 2025); Johannes Phokela: Only Sun in the Sky Knows How I Feel (A Lucid Dream) (Zeitz MOCAA, 2023) and An Anthology of Non-Conformism: Rebel Wom!n, Words, Ways, and Wonders (DIO Press, 2024).
She is the author of David Goldblatt: The Last Interview (Steidl, 2019), the editor of Nicola Brandt’s The Distance Within (Steidl, 2025), and a co-editor of Stockholm Cosmologies (Liljevalchs, 2025) and Radical Solidarity: A Reader (Zeitz MOCAA, 2023), amongst others.
She holds a Masters of Arts (Creative Writing) from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, and a PhD in Literature from the University of Cape Town.
She is drawn to texts with an essayistic, social-documentary heft, exploring themes like embodiment, memoir, social spectres, emergent ecologies, interspecies subjectivity and the connections between human and more-than-human life worlds.
