MIIA TOIVIO (born 1974) lives and works in Helsinki. She is a poet, a literary critic and a creative writing teacher. She debuted in 2007 with the collection called Loistaen olet (Teos). The second collection, Suut (2012, Poesia), was written together with a poet Marko Niemi. Toivio's newest collection Pysty hiljaisuus (Teos) was published last year.   Toivio loves to perform poems by herself or as a sound duo with Marko Niemi. She...

GUNNAR WÆRNESS (born 1971) is a Norwegian poet, translator, illustrator and musician living in Osby in south of Sweden. He made his literary début in 1999 with the poetry collection Kongesplint, which was the debutante prize winner of Tarjei Vesaas awarded by Norwegian Authors' Union. Wærness has written four poetry collections, but his interests and talents are spread widely in editing, translating and teaching. He has been in...