Tiina Lehikoinen is a writer and visual artist who thrives at the boundaries between species. Recurring themes in her work include ecofeminist engagements with materiality, power relations, and corporeality, as well as play and questioning the unknown. Lehikoinen has written several poetry and short story collections as well as an essayistic novel. Her most recent poetry collection, Mutta armo on kukka joka laulaa (But Grace Is a Flower That Sings, Poesia), was published in spring 2024, and a Spanish-language selection from the book will be published in 2026. Lehikoinen has received the Aforism Book of the Year Award and the Tampere City Literature Prize, and her books have been nominated for the Runeberg Prize, the Dancing Bear Prize, the Nihil Interit Prize, and the Brick Prize. In addition to her literary and artistic work, she has served as editor-in-chief of the poetry magazine Tuli & Savu and teaches creative writing.
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