Tanja Dückers

born in 1968, is a writer and journalist. She has written 16 books, including four novels, four collections of poetry, short stories, essays, children’s books, and two theater plays. She has received numerous foreign scholarships and was, among others, a guest at the Villa Decius in Krakow, a Lenka-Reinerova-Stipendium grant recipient in Prague, and a fellow at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles and on the island of Gotland. She also has teaches in America, most recently at Oberlin College in Ohio.