Marie Iljašenko (1983) was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, into a family of Czech-Polish descent. Her collection of poems Osip míří na jih (“Osip is Heading to the South”) was published in 2015 and nominated for the Magnesia Litera Prize. Her second collection of poems appears in 2019 and it is titled “Sv. Outdoor” (St. Outdoor). Occasionally she also writes short stories, essays and columns. She is active as a translator and works as an editor in the publishing house. She lives in Prague.