Goblins

Goblins explores the beasts we've loved, hated, and longed to be. In a searing exploration of her personal obsessions and preoccupations—from disturbing 80s fantasy films and uncanny puppets in modern art, to sexual predators in music scenes and her longing to 'become a goblin' like her icons and fellow performers in DIY punk—Jen Calleja shows us the ways she has lived in relation to these base, hungry, selfish and carefree creatures.



JEN CALLEJA is the author of I'm Afraid That's All We've Got Time For (Prototype, 2020) and the Man Booker International Prize-shortlisted translator of Marion Poschmann's The Pine Islands (Serpent's Tail, 2019). Her fiction, poetry and personal essays have appeared in Ambit, Another Gaze, Hotel, Somesuch Stories, The London Magazine, and the anthologies Spells:21st Century Occult Poetry (Ignota, 2018) and On Relationships (3 of Cups, 2020). Her most recent translation is The Diary of Marlene Marder (Thrilling Living, forthcoming) about the Swiss punk bands Kleenex and LiLiPUT. She plays or has played in the bands Sauna Youth, Feature, Monotony and others.