Author's Bio:
Ognjenka Lakićević was born in 1975 in Belgrade, Serbia, where she is a celebrated poet and musician. She studied English in the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Philology. She has published six collections of poetry, and she is the lead singer of the alternative rock band Autopark. In addition to her work as a family therapist, she holds poetry workshops and is an animal rights activist.
Translator's Bio:
Rachael Daum was awarded a 2021 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for her translation from the Serbian of Lusitania by Dejan Atanacković (forthcoming in 2027, Schaffner Press), and is the translator from the Russian of Letters to Robot Werther by Natalia Rubanova (Carrion Bloom Books, 2021), and from the Croatian of The Story of a Man Who Collapsed into His Notebook by Ivana Sajko (Fraktura, 2023). She works as the Communications & Awards Director at the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), and lives in Cologne, Germany.