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. 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. She 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, and written essays on multilingual poetry practice. During that period she collaborated with poets, musicians, composers, sound artists, computer scientists, sound engineers, theatre directors, and arts and humanities scholars and specialists. Her ambitious piece Heart Monologues, a 33-minute-long multivocal work based on a long poem sequence of thirteen poems in English, French, and Croatian created for performance with collaborator the electronic musician and composer Atau Tanaka toured in London, Paris and in Croatia (2022-2023), and published in the UK (2022). In 2021, Jasmina was the convenor of the multilingual poetry writing panel "Multilingual poetry writing: strategies of translation, disruption and resistance" at the Languages Future online conference where she also gave a talk on Reveries about Language, her 2019 multilingual poetry performance with live encoded electronic music and computer generated graphics by Estonian sound artist Alo Allik. 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).

Jasmina is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Westminster; she has a doctorate (PhD) in French and Francophone studies. She has given conference papers in her subject area, both nationally and internationally, and has produced several academic articles and reviews. She lived in Brussels between 1976 and 1981, and in Vienna between 1986 and 1987. 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 moved to London in 1995 where she has been living and working since. Jasmina has a background in postcolonial Francophone theory, linguistics, and semiotics. 

Jasmina is a member of the Centre for Contemporary Writing, Queen Mary University of London, and an active participant of The Solitary to Solidary Arts Lab led by Caroline Bergvall. She is a member of the Society of Authors (SoA) since 2022.

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