Dagmara Kraus was born in Poland in 1981 and studied comparative literature, art history, and creative writing. She writes poetry and translates from Polish. She has published two books of original poetry in German: kummerang (Berlin, kookbooks 2012) and kleine grammaturgie (Solothurn, Urs Engeler / rough books, 2013), as well as two book-length collections of translations from the work of the Polish poet Miron Bialoszewski: Wir Seesterne (Leipzig, Reinecke&Voß) and Das geheime Tagebuch (Berlin, Edition Fototapeta).