Andy J. Hodges is a cultural anthropologist turned fiction editor, translator, and writer. Their work explores ecological themes and the poetics and politics of myths and mythmaking, queer experience, violence, and masculinities. They earned a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Manchester in 2013 and lived in Croatia from 2008–2018. Andy published an ethnography of queer/left-wing ultras in Croatia (Routledge, 2018) and coauthored a shipyard ethnography (University of Toronto Press, 2024). Andy’s translation of Kristina Gavran’s novel Izmedju was published in Relations and longlisted for the John Dryden Translation Competition. Andy edits bestselling commercial and literary fiction titles for various US and UK publishers and translates literary fiction and ethnographies from the former Yugoslav region. They live in a village outside Edinburgh, where they enjoy trail running and mushroom foraging.