For the author's biography in French and Croatian, go here.

Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani (previous pen name: Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani Mina Ray) is a London-based interdisciplinary artist, poet and researcher of mixed heritage (Croatian father / Algerian mother) born in Zagreb. Jasmina lived in Brussels between 1976 and 1981, and in Vienna between 1986 and 1987. She moved to London in 1995 where she has been living and working since.

Jasmina is the founder of the multilingual poetry project “Unbound” in 2017 that received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded Language Acts and Worldmaking Small grants programme in 2018 and 2019. She has (co-)directed several multilingual poetry recitals and live performances in the UK, France, and Croatia, and has given talks, written essays, and facilitated panels on multilingual poetry practice. Her poems in English, French and Croatian have appeared in various literary magazines and journals in the UK including The Fortnightly Review, Molly Bloom, Pamenar Press and Tears in the Fence, and in several publications in Canada and Croatia. 

Recent works include Heart Monologues, a 33-minute-long multivocal work based on Jasmina's long poem sequence of thirteen poems in English, French, and Croatian created for performance with collaborator the electronic musician and composer Atau Tanaka. Heart Monologues toured in London, Paris and in Croatia (2022-2023), and it published in the UK (2022). Jasmina has published three multilingual poetry collections, Gazelle / Gazela / Gazelle (Galerija Kranjcar: Zagreb, 2023), Knitting drum machines for exiled tongues (Tears in the Fence: Dorset, 2022), Reveries about language (Faculty for Arts and Humanities, King's College London, London: 2019). Her artistic engagement is interdisciplinary: she collaborated with poets, musicians, composers, sound artists, computer scientists, sound engineers, theatre directors, as well as arts and humanities scholars and specialists.

For the past two years, Jasmina has been studying Arabic calligraphy and the Arabic script as a way to explore her own familial history and maternal Algerian/French heritage. She has run two calligraphy workshops (a taster and a seminar) at King's College London.

Jasmina is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Westminster; she has a doctorate (PhD) in French and Francophone studies. Between 1991 and 1993 she received a bursary from the Swedish Institute and was a resident researcher at the Nordic Institute for Advanced Study in Modern Swedish, University of Uppsala.She is a member of the Centre for Contemporary Writing, Queen Mary University of London, the Society of Authors (SoA), and an active participant of The Solitary to Solidary Arts Lab led by Caroline Bergvall. 

For full list of Jasmina's poetry related publications, talks and interviews, go here.