Andrej Blatnik (1963) works as an editor and associate professor of publishing studies at the University of Ljubljana. He has participated in numerous literary festivals around the globe, including PEN World Voices in New York City, the Toronto International Festival of Authors, the Jaipur Literary Festival, and Cosmopolis in Barcelona. He was a participant in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 1993. He has received several fellowships, including the Fulbright Scholarship. He continues to love reading and travelling. Blatnik has published five novels, most recently Trg osvoboditve (Liberation Square) (Goga 2021), six collections of short stories, including Zakon želje (The Law of Desire) (Beletrina, 2000), Saj razumeš? (You Do Understand?) (LUD Literatura, 2009) and Ugrizi (Bites) (LUD Literatura, 2019), five works on cultural studies, and a manual on writing short stories. He has been awarded several major domestic and international prizes. His short stories have been published in several magazines and anthologies, including Best European Fiction 2010 (Dalkey Archive Press, 2010) and Short: An International Anthology of Five Centuries of Short Short Stories (Persea Books, 2014). He has had around 40 translations of his books published in 17 languages, including four in English and German.