Andrea Jurjević is a poet and literary translator. She was born and raised in Rijeka, Croatia, in the former Yugoslavia, before immigrating to the United States. Her debut poetry collection
Small Crimes won the Philip Levine Prize, and her chapbook
Nightcall was selected for the ACME Poem Company Surrealist Poetry Series. Her book-length translations from Croatian include
Mamasafari (Diálogos Press, 2018) and
Dead Letter Office (The Word Works, 2020), which was shortlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry.
Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Believer, TriQuarterly, The Missouri Review, Crazyhorse and The New Republic, among many others. She was the recipient of a Robinson Jeffers Tor Prize, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a Hambidge Fellowship, and the 2018 Georgia Author of the Year award. Andrea lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and teaches in the English department at Georgia State University.