Tone Škrjanec (born 1953 in Ljubljana), studied sociology, teacher and journalist, from 1990 programme and poetry coordinator at the cultural centre KUD France Prešeren in Ljubljana, translator (Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, Gary Snyder, Frank O'Hara), often performs together with musicians. Books of poetry include: Dihaj (Breathe, 2017), Nekaj o nas kot živalih (Something about us as animals, 2020). In German: Haut, Litterae Slovenicae, Slovenian Writers' Union, 2021 (trans. 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).