Katlin Kaldmaa is an Estonian poet, writer, translator and literary critic. She has published four collections of poetry, two books for children, an autobiographical work of non-fiction, and a novel. She has translated over 40 books into Estonian by authors such as Jeanette Winterson, Aphra Behn, Michael Ondaatje, Ali Smith, Goran Simi and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Her own poems have been translated into Arabic, English, Finnish, French, German, Korean, Latin, Japanese, Russian, Slovenian, and Spanish. She is the President of Estonian PEN.