Marek Torčík is a poet, writer, and journalist. He comes from Přerov and lives in Prague, where he studied Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. In 2016, his poetry collection Rhizomes was published. He has also published poems and prose in various magazines. For his debut novel You Shall Unfold Memory (Paseka, 2023), he received the Magnesia Litera Award for Prose and the Jiří Orten Award for authors under thirty.