Georg Leß (1981) was born in Arnsbeg and currently lives in Berlin. His works have been featured in various magazines and anthologies, such as Akzente, Edit, manhskripte, Park and Sprache in technischen Zeilalter, and have also appeared in translation in various languages. Leß has been the recipient of the GWK Promotion Prize (Society for the Fostering of Cultural Activities in Westphalia) and the Promotion Prize of the Federal State of North Rhine – Westphalia for Young Artists. His debut poetry book Schlachtgewicht (Dead Weight) was published by Parasitenpresse in Cologne in 2013. His follow-up collection Hohlhandmusikalität (The Music Qualities of the Palm) was released by Berlin’s Kookbooks in 2019. His poems in this anthology were originally included in Schlachtgewicht.