Author of Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode, Vehicle, Dust Sucker, I’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time For, Hamburger in the Archive and Serious Justice
Shortlisted for the Short Fiction/University of Essex Prize 2020. Longlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize 2020. Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019 for the translation of Marion Poschmann’s The Pine Islands
Recipient of an Authors’ Foundation Grant (Society of Authors, 2018). Writer in Residence with index Freiraum, Zurich (Dec 2016-Jan 2017) and Recipient of a Cove Park Literature & Translation Residency (2021)
Judge for The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2021 and the Scratch Books Short Story Competition 2024
My latest book is Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode (Rough Trade Books, October 2024), and my next book will be my literary translator memoir Fair (Prototype, June 2025). Scroll down for information about my published books.
My fiction, poetry and life writing have appeared in The White Review, Best British Short Stories 2021 (Salt), The London Magazine, Ambit, Wasafiri, Another Gaze, Somesuch Stories, 3:AM, Waiting for the Gift: Short Stories Inspired by Low (Confingo), Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry (Ignota), Altered States (Ignota), On Relationships: An Anthology (3 of Cups), Hotel, Structo, Podium (Vienna), manuskripte (Graz), and elsewhere.
My reviews and essays have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, History Today, PEN Transmissions, Modern Poetry in Translation, PORT, The Architectural Review, Inque, Somesuch Stories, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Fabrikzeitung (Zurich), Asymptote, and elsewhere. I’ve written long-running columns on literature in translation for the Brixton Review of Books and The Quietus.
Commissions: Tate Modern, English PEN, Wapping Project, Grand Union Gallery, Arusha Gallery. Talks, readings & panels: Southbank Centre, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Granta Writers’ Workshop, London Book Fair, Wellcome Collection, Museum of London, Ledbury Poetry Festival, Burley Fisher Literary Festival, Deutsches Haus NYU, Boston University, EUNIC Literature Days Festival (Vienna). Chairing: Cheltenham Literature Festival, British Library, London Book Fair, numerous bookshops.