Barbara Korun (1963) was born in Ljubljana where she graduated in comparative literature, and for almost two decades taught at local grammar schools. For several years she worked as a language advisor at the Slovene National Theatre, now she is a freelance writer. Korun has published seven poetry collections and has received several Slovene and international awards. Her first collection won the best debut award, and her fourth collection won the Veronika Award for best Slovene poetry collection of the year and the Golden Bird Award for outstanding achievement in poetry. Her work has been published in fifteen book translations and over sixty reviews and anthologies in more than twenty languages. She also writes reviews and essays and actively promotes poetry written by women. Since 2013, she has organised regular monthly readings of new poetry by Slovene women poets called Women Poets for Women Poets for which she was awarded the 2020 Mira Award bestowed by the Slovene PEN Centre and Italy’s Regina Coppola International Literary Award (2016). Her books include Ostrina miline (The Edge of Grace) (Mladinska knjiga, 1999), Razpoke (Fissures) Nova revija, 2004), Pridem takoj (Back Soon) (KUD Apokalipsa, 2011) and Idioritmija (Idiorrhythmy) (KUD AAC, 2021).