V.B. Borjen (b.1987) writes in two languages and reads in four. His poems, short stories, essays, articles and literary translations have appeared in various web and print magazines and dailies in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Gračanički glasnik, Oslobođenje, Strane), Croatia (Novi Plamen, Metafora.hr), Serbia (P.U.L.S.E., Symposion), Hungary (Ex-Symposion), Montenegro (Stribor Strašni) and the US (Hypothetical: A Review of Everything Imaginable, AZURE). In 2012 the manuscript of his first poetry collection Priručnik za levitiranje (Levitation Manual) won the contest for the prestigious Mak Dizdar Award and was published the following year to significant acclaim. He is a doctoral candidate in the programme Literatures in English at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic, where he also works and teaches.