Katharina Schultens was born in Rheinland-Pfalz in 1980 and has worked at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin since 2006. Her poems have appeared in various magazines and anthologies including trashpool, ostragehege, randnummer, shampoo, bella triste, Lyrik von Jetzt II and Neubuch. Her debut collection came out in 2004 from Rhein-Mosel Verlag; her second collection, gierstabil was published in 2011 by luxbooks Verlag in Wiesbaden. There’s been prize money too, ta very much, in 2005, 2007 and 2009. (2012)