Anja Mugerli (1984) is a writer, lecturer and editor. She graduated in Slovene language and literature and holds a Master's degree in performing arts and creative writing. In 2015 she published her collection of short stories Zeleni fotelj (Green Sofa) (Litera, 2015), which was nominated for best debut at the Slovene Book Fair that year. Her novel Spovin (Memory-Wine) (Litera, 2017), was among the final ten for the Kresnik Award. Her third book is a collection of short stories Čebelja družina (Bee Family) (Cankarjeva založba, 2020) for which she received the 2021 European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL). The collection was also nominated for the Novo Mesto Award and has so far been translated into Croatian, Macedonian, Italian, Bulgarian and Hungarian. Her texts are published in many important Slovene literary magazines, she was a guest speaker at various literary festivals in Slovenia and abroad. She lives in Nova Gorica and every so often travels to a literary residence; for example in 2022 she spent time writing in Vienna and in Liechtenstein. Her most recent novel is entitled Pričakovanja (Expectations) (Cankarjeva založba, 2023).