Jure Jakob (b. 1977 in Celje) studied philosophy and comparative literature in Ljubljana. In addition to poetry, he writes essays and children's books, and has also published a biography of the writer Lojze Kovačič. 

Books of poetry, among others: Tri postaje (Three Stations, 2003), Zapuščeni kraji (Abandoned Places, 2010), Lakota (Hunger, 2018). In German: Werkstückchen, Litterae Slovenicae, Slovenian Writers' Union, 2019 (tr. Ann Catrin Bolton) and poems in the anthology Mein Nachbar auf der Wolke; Slowenische Lyrik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts (Carl Hanser Verlag & Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, 2023).