Regina Menke, born in 1997, studied philosophy in Hildesheim and Poznań; since October 2021 she has been studying for a Master’s degree in Literary Writing (Language Arts) in Vienna. She was a co-editor of BELLA triste, a scholarship holder of the Foundation of Lower Saxony for the Literature Laboratory Wolfenbüttel and a participant in the Academy for Poetry Criticism at the House of Poetry in Berlin. In 2022, she received the 2nd prize at the Hamburg Klopstock Prize for Young Poetry.