Who wrote Taylor Swift’s “august” with her?

Taylor Swift wrote “august” with Jack Antonoff.

Antonoff was a major collaborator on Folklore and worked with Swift on both songwriting and production. For “august,” he developed the instrumental before sending it to Swift, who wrote the lyrics in response to the music.

The song’s writing combines fictional character work with vivid late-summer imagery. Its narrator remembers a brief relationship with James, using images of sunlight, salt air, and passing time to express the feeling of losing something that was never fully hers.

Joe Alwyn is sometimes named as the song’s co-writer because he contributed to other Folklore songs under the pseudonym William Bowery. However, the listed songwriters for “august” are Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff. Alwyn is credited as a producer, not as a writer of this track.