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, The Baffler, Poetry, Mekong Review, 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 Berlin, football, 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, awarded a Berlin Senate grant, cited as "notable" in Best American Essays, and featured in numerous roundups and newsletters. He is currently finishing his first book.

He is active in the Berlin international books scene, hosting and organizing author events while editing for The Auflauf. (From 2020 to 2025, he was Books Editor of the print monthly The Berliner.) He is available for work as a German-to-English translator, copyeditor, and event moderator.

Some recent writing