Miia Toivio, born in 1974 in Ilmajoki/Finland, co-founder of the publishing house Poesia, was active as a literary critic, columnist, editor of the poetry magazine Tuli&Savu, as well as a creative writing teacher. Her forth poetry volume Sukupuutot was published in 2019 and won the Nihil Interit Prize for the best poetry volume. Her poems have been translated into Lithuanian, Estonian, Russian, Italian and Norwegian.
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