Editors

Lea Horvat is a cultural historian. Be it socialist mass housing, coffee in the Habsburg Empire, or postmigrant encounters, she takes her topics from and back to her heart. Moving from Krapina to Zagreb and in 2013 to Berlin, she keeps holding onto several spaces at the time, with modest success.

Ana Sekulić is a historian and writer. Born and raised in Croatia, she’s been straddling countries and languages for nearly two decades. She writes about nature, religion, and belonging in all its forms and thinks about the Balkans—what it was and what it could be.

Authors

  • Dr. Roxana Coman is currently a researcher at Orient-Institut Istanbul, member of the COST Action Europe through Textiles, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London. Her research interests focus on 18th century Ottoman Empire’s material culture and 19th-20th century museums and private collections in Southeast Europe.

  • Rebecca Duras is a Croatian-American writer currently based between Zagreb and Niš. She writes about generational cycles, the memory of Yugoslavia, and home (wherever that may be). Her work has previously been published in Catapult, Barzakh, and on her Substack, The Best F#cking Years of Your Life.

  • Larisa Jašarević is an anthropologist. An independent scholar, she works and lives by an apiary in northeastern Bosnia. Her book, Beekeeping in the End Times, on the subject of apiculture, climate change, and Islamic eschatology, is in press (Indiana University Press, 2023).

  • Katarina Kušić is a researcher trained in International Politics living in Rijeka. You can find out more at katarinakusic.com.

  • Christina Novakov-Ritchey earned her Ph.D. at the University of California-Los Angeles and she currently serves as Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. Her research and teaching focus on theories and histories of colonialism, socialism, folklore, and art.

  • Genta Nishku is a writer, translator and literary scholar. Her research focuses on silence, testimony, and resistance in contemporary Albanian and post-Yugoslav literatures. Her short fiction has recently been published in the Kenyon Review and new_sinews, and her poetry is forthcoming in Bennington Review and Washington Square Review. She was born and raised in Tirana, and currently lives in New York City.

  • Ena Selimović is a writer and translator who works from Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian into English. Her work has appeared in PMLA, Slavic and East European Journal, World Literature Today, Reading in Translation, among others. She cofounded the Turkoslavia translators collective, which celebrated the launching of its translation journal in 2022.