Serena Mackesy (pen name, Alex Marwood; born c. 1960s) is a British novelist and journalist who lives in London.
[1] Mackesy worked variously in offices, as an English teacher and in door-to-door sales before, as she told an interviewer in 2000: "I arrived at The Independent as a temp to cover for the secretary on the TV listings page... for a couple of weeks, realised I'd found somewhere I enjoyed and somehow never left....
The first thing anyone seemed to actually notice was a small daily bar review I used to write when the paper had a London supplement.
[8] In 2012, she adopted the pseudonym "Alex Marwood" with the publication of the psychological thriller The Wicked Girls which became a word-of-mouth bestseller in the UK, and was translated into 17 languages.
Writers she admires include Kurt Vonnegut, C. S. Lewis (Narnia series), John Donne, and the "other" Elizabeth Taylor (Angel).