Jen Calleja
Jen Calleja's most recent books include the experimental memoirs Fair: The Life-Art of Translation (a Guardian Book of the Day, July 2025) and Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode (5-star review, The Telegraph).
Her short stories, creative non-fiction, and poetry have appeared in Best British Short Stories (Salt), The London Magazine, The White Review, Wasafiri, Ambit, and elsewhere, and she has been shortlisted for the Short Fiction/University of Essex Prize and longlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize for Experiment in Text. She has translated over twenty works of German-language literature into English and was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019 for her translation of Marion Poschmann's The Pine Islands. She is also co-publisher at Praspar Press, which publishes Maltese literature in English and English translation. She teaches creative writing at Goldsmiths and for the Granta Writers' Workshop.
