Participants Poets

Uljana Wolf

poet, translator

Germany

Uljana Wolf was born in East Berlin, and studied German literature, English, and Cultural Studies, in Berlin and Krakow.

Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies in Germany and all over Europe, as well as in New European Poetry (Graywolf, 2008), Dichten No. 10: 16 New German Poets (Burning Deck, 2008), theChicago Review, and Harper’s Magazine. She has published two volumes of poetry, kochanie ich habe brot gekauft (kookbooks 2005) and falsche freunde (kookbooks 2009).

In 2006, she was awarded the Peter-Huchel-Preis and the Dresdner Lyrikpreis, and in 2008 she received the RAI/Medienpreis at the Meraner Lyrikpreis, a grant from the Deutsche Literaturfonds and from the Deutsche Übersetzerfonds. She was also the co-editor of the Jahrbuch für Lyrik (Fischer Verlag 2008). Wolf lives in Berlin and New York.