Senka Marić is a poet, writer, essayist, translator, and chief editor of the online literary magazine Strane. She has published three volumes of poetry and has received several awards, among them the Zija Dizdarevic Short Story Award, the European Knight of Poetry Award. Body Kintsugi is Marić’s first novel. It won the prestigious Mesa Selimovic Award for best novel published in 2018 in the region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro.