Ingmāra Balode (born 1981 in

Auce Auce (; ; ) is a town in Dobele Municipality, in the Semigallia region of Latvia. It is situated near the Lithuanian border. History Before the 13th century, the territory of Auce was a part of a Semigallians, Semigallian Spārnene county. Aft ...

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), is a Latvian poet and

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Biography

A graduate of the Riga School of Applied Arts (Rīgas Lietišķās mākslas koledža), she holds a bachelor's and master's degree from the Latvian Academy of Culture, where she is currently working on her PhD. From 2006 to 2011 she worked as an editor for the cultural portal 1/4 Satori and since 2012 for the publishing house Mansards.

Selected works

Poetry

* ''Ledenes, ar kurām var sagriezt mēli'' (2007) * ''alba'' (2012)

References

1981 births Living people 21st-century Latvian poets Latvian translators Latvian women poets 21st-century Latvian women writers 21st-century translators People from Auce {{Latvia-poet-stub