Alex Beecroft is an English author best known for historical and contemporary romantic fiction featuring gay characters.
They also write science fiction/fantasy fiction as Alex Oliver, and cozy mysteries under the pseudonym Robyn Beecroft.
Beecroft won Linden Bay Romance's (now Samhain Publishing) Starlight Writing Competition in 2007 with their first novel, Captain’s Surrender, making it their first published book.
They are a regular reviewer for the blog Speak Its Name, which highlights historical gay fiction.
Beecroft was born in Northern Ireland and grew up in the Peak District.