Katarína Kucbelová (1979) is an award-winning Slovak poet, writer and literary manager. Born in Banská Bystrica, she studied at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava where she has lived, since graduating, with her husband and daughter. In 2006 she founded Slovakia’s most prestigious literary award, the Anasoft Litera, which she headed until 2012. She is the author of five collections of poetry. Selections from her collection Little Big City are featured in A Fine Line: New Poetry from Central and Eastern Europe (Arc Publications, 2004), translated by James and Vera Sutherland-Smith, and in The World Record: International Voices from Southbank Centre’s Poetry Parnassus (Bloodaxe Books, 2012), translated by Clare Pollard and Katarína Kucbelová. Her most recent collection, k bielej, won the Golden Wave Prize for poetry and the Václav Burian Award. Her prose debut, Čepiec (The Bonnet) was voted Book of the Year by the daily Pravda in 2019; in 2020 it was shortlisted for the Anasoft Litera Award and also received the Panta Rhei Literary Academy Award. It has since appeared in Hungarian, Polish and German translations. Her most recent book of fiction, Modrosleposť, appeared in 2023.