Rey Conquer

Rey Conquer is a lecturer in German literature and film at Queen Mary, University of London, and a freelance writer; they are also currently translator-in-residence at Holocaust Centre North. Their academic monograph, Reading Colour (2019), won the 2018 Institute for German Studies Early Career Researcher Prize. They write reviews and essays on a wide range of topics – from contemporary German culture to queer morality – for the TLS, LA Review of Books, Burlington Contemporary and others, and their art criticism was shortlisted for the Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize. A short story, ‘It’s Called Fashion’, was published in the award-winning anthology Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers.