About me

Alexander Wells is a nonfiction writer, editor, and translator living in Berlin. His essays and reviews have been published by The Guardian, Paris Review Daily, The Drift, New Left Review (Sidecar), The Baffler, Poetry, LARB, History Today, and Meanjin among others. His main areas of focus are (East) German literature and the politics of history in Central Europe; he also writes on birdlife and nature, masculinity, and Australia. His writing has been (e.g.) nominated for the Pushcart Prize, listed for prizes like DISQUIET and Woollahra Digital Literary Award, cited as "notable" in Best American Essays, and featured in numerous roundups and newsletters. He is working on his first book.

Since 2020, he has been Books Editor of the print monthly The Berliner in Berlin, where he writes and edits reviews, interviews, and columns on local literature; he also hosts and organizes author events. He is available for work as a German-to-English translator, copyeditor, and event moderator.

Some recent writing