Triin Paja lives in rural Estonia. She is the author of three collections of poetry in Estonian and a recipient of the Värske Rõhk Poetry Award, the Betti Alver Literary Award, and the Juhan Liiv Prize for Poetry. Her English poetry has received two Pushcart Prizes and her chapbook, Sleeping in a Field (forthcoming in 2024), won the Wolfson Poetry Chapbook Prize. Her poetry has been translated into Czech, Finnish, English, Russian, Lithuanian, Latvian, and Slovenian, and she is a member of the Estonian Writers’ Union.

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