Sirka Elspaß

Sirka Elspaß, born in Oberhausen in 1995, studied creative writing and cultural journalism in Hildesheim and language arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (under Monika Rinck, among others). She was a prize-winner at the Treffen junger Autor:innen 2010 & 2012 and postpoetry-Nachwuchspreisträgerin 2013, she co-edited the magazine BELLA triste (no. 41-45) and has published her work in various magazines and anthologies, including STILL, Edit and Lyrik von Jetzt 3. The collection of poetry ich föhne mir meine wimpern is her debut.