Ana Brnardić (1980) is born in Zagreb, Croatia. She holds a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature and the Croatian Language and Literature from the University of Zagreb, as well as a Master’s degree in Music (violin) from the Music Academy in Zagreb. She has published five collections of poems. Her debut collection of poems, Some Sage’s Pen (1998), garnered her critical acclaim and two prestigious awards: the Goran Award for Young Poets and the Slavic Award from the Croatian Writer’s Association for the best debut poetry collection. Her collection of poems Waltzing Snakes (2005), received the Kvirin Award for Young Poets. Her other poetry collections are Genesis of Birds (2009), Uphill (2015) and A Wolf and a Birch (2019) - Genesis of Birds and A Wolf and a Birch were shortlisted for the Tin Ujević Prize for Poetry. Selected poems from Brnardić were translated into Romanian in the book Hotel cu muzicieni (transl. by Dumitru M. Ion, Editura Academiei Internaţionale Orient-Occident, Bucharest) in 2009. And Genesis of Birds was translated into Swedish (Fåglarnas tillblivelse transl. by Đorđe Žarković, Rámus förlag, Malmö) in 2016. In 2021. a collection of poems from her last two books was translated into French and published under a title Devant toi le jour (L’Ollave, transl. by Vanda Mikšić & Brankica Radić). She takes part in European Poetry platform “Versopolis”. Aside from writing poetry and book reviews, Brnardić also translates contemporary Romanian literature into Croatian.