Andrea Jurjević grew up in Rijeka, Croatia, in the former Yugoslavia, before immigrating to the United States. Her debut poetry collection, Small Crimes, won the 2015 Philip Levine Poetry Prize, and her book-length translations from Croatian include MAMASAFARI (Dialogos / Lavender Ink, 2018). Her work appears in TriQuarterly, The Missouri Review, Gulf Coast, and many others. She was the recipient of a Robinson Jeffers Tor Prize and the 2018 Georgia Author of the Year award.