The Surviving Cells

Brian Willems was born in Minnesota in 1972. He has lived in Croatia since 1996 and now teaches literature at the University of Split. His poetry and prose have appeared in The Antioch Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Things Magazine, Prague Literary Review and elsewhere. He is the author of several academic books, most recently Sham Ruins: A User's Guide (2022), and is co-editor, with Nicol Barria-Asenjo and Slavoj Zizek, of Global Manifestos for the 21st Century, with a foreword by Yanis Varoufakis (2023). His first novella, Henry, Henry, was published by Zero Books. He also translates from Croatian into English and is co-editor of LOOK Editions.