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Ulrike Almut Sandig was born in Großenhain, Saxony in 1979. In 2001, together with the songwriter Marlen Pelny, she founded the literature projects augenpost and ohrenpost in which they taped poems onto construction fences, spread them using flyers and free post cards and gave their first concerts. In 2005 Sandig completed her Magister in Religious Studies and modern Indiology. From 2007 to 2009 she was the co-editor of the literary magazine EDIT and in 2010 she received her diploma from the German Creative Writing Program Leipzig. Ulrike Almut Sandig lives in Leipzig. Several of her texts have been translated into English, French, Polish, Turkish, Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Hindi. (2010)