(1989) Was born in Celje, Slovenia. Katja Gorečan has been writing poetry since she was 11 years old. At 17, she published her first book of poetry called Angels of the Same Origin. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature and Literature Theory and a master’s degree in Dramaturgy and Performing Arts at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television. In 2012, she published her second book The Suffering of Young Hana (Center for Slovene literature) which was nominated for the Jenko award (the highest poetry award in Slovenia) and was selected for XV Biennale de la Méditerranéé (THESSALONIKI / ROME 2011). In 2017, her third book was published, a collection of choreopoems called Neke noči neke deklice nekje umirajo (Some girls in some nights somewhere are dying).
She has been collaborating as a guest at different literature festivals and her poetry was presented in anthologies, such as the Czech anthology Mladi mesec, and the Anthology of Young Slovene Literature in German translation. She is not only artistically, but also socially engaged. She has worked with elderly people with dementia in a nursing home, led creative workshops with female refugees and their children, and also worked with mentally handicapped youth.
For Versopolis, Ana Schnabl wrote that poets' socially engaged side explains her poetry in this case. Gorečan's work is sensitive, attentive and caring towards deprivileged subjects – especially marginalised women - without ever being sentimental. Her much acclaimed poetry collection The Suffering of Young Hana therefore focuses on a girl, yet to become a woman, who from afar seems to be dealing with standard growing pains – the desire to be loved, admired, accepted, f****, worshipped, heard and the aim to find emotional, mental and economical balance sometime in the future. There is no resolution in Gorečan's poetry – Hana, the author and the distanced reporter share grounds of discourse. It is as if the author would like to stress that there is no space for morality in what one desires, feels, hurts. Hana is a conflicted and a conflicting individual who is unable to internalize what is demanded of her. Let it be conventional relationship or poetic models. Gorečan's language is not figurative, nor metaphorical, but painfully honest, words are vehicles of meaning and affect. Hana makes Katja Gorečan's work amazingly penetrating, direct and – feminist.