Suzana Tratnik (1963) studied sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana and holds a Master’s degree in gender anthropology from the Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis. She is a writer, translator, sociologist, essayist, and lesbian activist. She has published seven collections of short stories, notable among them Vzporednice (Parallels) (ŠKUC, 2005) and six novels, including Ime mi je Damjan, (My name is Damian) (ŠKUC, 2001), Norhavs na vrhu hriba (Madhouse on the Hill) (Cankarjeva založba, 2019), Ava (Mladinska knjiga, 2021), and Pontonski most (Ponton Bridge) (Beletrina, 2020). In 2007 she received the Prešeren Fund Award. Two main themes in her fiction are the marginal fates in contemporary urban life and the depiction of childhood in the Yugoslavia of the 1960s and 1970s.