Alison Kervin

Alison Cristine Kervin OBE is the Sports Editor of the Mail on Sunday newspaper. She is the first female in the UK to become sports editor of a major national newspaper.

Kervin has written a series of light-hearted novels centred on footballers' wives and girlfriends (known as WAGs): The WAG's Diary, A WAG Abroad and WAGs at the World Cup; followed by the tongue-in-cheek WAGs' Guide to Euro 2012. Her fourth novel, Celebrity Bride, a romantic comedy, was published in June 2009. Mother & Son, about the relationship between a single mother, her son, and the boy's father, was published in 2014.

Kervin is now Sports Editor of The Mail on Sunday, she was formerly the Chief Sports Feature Writer of The Times newspaper where she wrote a weekly interview – The Kervin Interview – for three years, then she became Chief Sports Interviewer of The Daily Telegraph before going freelance. Recently she has worked as a consultant to Harper Collins Publishers, media trainer for UK Sport, and she was consultant editor on the Official Olympic Souvenir programme.

Kervin has written seven sport-related books including Denise Lewis: Personal Best, Jason Leonard: The Autobiography, Sports Writing, The Unofficial Guide to the Rugby World Cup and Clive Woodward: The Biography, the autobiography of Phil Vickery and Thirty Bullies.

Kervin was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to sports journalism.