James J. Con­way was born in Syd­ney and now lives in Berlin where he is a trans­la­tor from Ger­man to Eng­lish, both com­mer­cial and lit­er­ary. He has trans­lat­ed and pub­lished eight books for Rix­dorf Edi­tions, includ­ing Berlin’s Third Sex (Mag­nus Hirschfeld), Anti­semitism (Her­mann Bahr) and Death (Anna Crois­sant-Rust). He has writ­ten for out­lets such as the Times Lit­er­ary Sup­ple­ment, the Los Ange­les Review of Books, and The Pub­lic Domain Review, as well as his own repos­i­to­ry of alter­na­tive cul­tur­al his­to­ry, Strange Flow­ers.