Lučka Zorko

Lučka Zorko is a poet, writer, and editor, born in 1981 in Murska Sobota, Slovenia. She writes poetry, prose, and children’s literature. To date, she has published four poetry collections: *Reciklaža kosti* (2001), *Obdukcija srca* (2004), *Karavana* (2006), and *Vreščeče čeri* (2011); the novel *Božji delec* (2013); a short story in the collaborative collection *Štirje*, co-authored with F. Lainšček, M. Roš, and M. Tirš (2002); and an independent collection of short fiction, *Divja noč* (2016). She has also published three works for younger readers: *Grimolda*, co-authored with Robert Titan Felix (2008), *Plavček* (2013), and *Žirafek Željko*, co-authored with Tomaž Verdev (2018).

Her works have been included in several literary collections and anthologies. Translations of her poems into Italian, Hungarian, and Polish have appeared in international literary journals and anthologies. In 2009, she received the Knight of Poetry Award at the Poetry Tournament in Maribor.

She currently lives and works in Murska Sobota. She mentors young literary writers in the Pomurje region and also writes forewords, afterwords, and critical reflections.