Profile
Ulrike Draesner was born in 1962 in Munich and has been living in Berlin since 1996. She is a poet, a writer of long and short fiction, a translator of Anglo-American poetry. Apart from numerous appearances in anthologies and magazines, she has published four poetry collections. Her first novel came out in 1998, followed by a collection of stories and the novels Mitgift (2002), Spiele/Games (2005) and Vorliebe (2010). Draesner also works as an author of essays on poetics, media and cultural change. Her multimedia collaborations include a space poem for Hong Kong, participation in various Internet projects and SMS and video experiments. She has been awarded poetic readerships and sometimes teaches as a professor for Creative Writing at the Deutsche Literaturinstitut Leipzig. Her work, especially her poetry, has been translated into many languages. For her poetry and prose she received national and international scholarships and literary awards.
