Veronika Dintinjana, Slovenia

Born in 1977. In 2008 she won the Maribor poetry tournament award and the 6th Ljubljana poetry slam. In September 2008, her first poetry collection, Rumeno Gori Grm Forzicij, was published by Literatura and awarded Best First Book award at the 24th Slovenian Book Fair. Veronika has published poems and essays by Louise Glück, Muriel Rukeyser and Denise Levertov in her translation and co-translated the 20th century Irish poetry anthology, Čudovita usta. Dancing on the Edge of the World, a collection of essays by Ursula K. Le Guin in Veronika's translation was published in 2007. Veronika is a co-organizer of the monthly poetry reading series Mlade Rime hosted at Metelkova by Cultural Society Kentaver.