Alexis Teyie is a Kenyan writer and feminist. She is a co-founder and poetry editor with Enkare Review, and co-founder of publishing lab, Magic Door.
Alex co-authored a children’s book, Short Cut (2015). She has also published a poetry chapbook, Clay Plates: Broken Records of Kiswahili Proverbs (2016), through the African Poetry Book Fund and Akashic Books (see on LitHub). Her poetry, short fiction or non-fiction have appeared in collections like Routledge’s Handbook of Queer Studies (2019); Queer Africa II (GALA); ID (SSDA); Jalada Africa, among others. She also works as a data nerd and sings for a secret choir in Nairobi.