Barbara Jurič is born in 1981 in Ljubljana, where she presently lives and works as a receptionist on an intermittent schedule basis for Radio-Television Slovenia. She attended Ledina grammar school. After having interrupted her university studies in Slovenian language and literature, she found employment at the Muscular Distrophy Association as a patient support social worker. She is a regular member of the Academic Choir and used to sing also in several other choral ensembles, having traveled as a choral singer throughout Europe. She took part inLiterary Creative Writing workshops under the mentorship of Uroš Zupan as well as in Read-Aloud-Rhymes for the Young. As a poetess, she introduced herself the first time at the Ljubljana Faculty of Arts in Literary Grains of that time, afterwards at the Young Adult Literature Festival Urška 2005 and, consequently, in the review Mentor. She also published her pieces in literary magazines Vsesledje, Dialogues, Apocalypse and Literature, and in the collection of poems entitled Young Rhymes One. Additionally, she tried her hand also at translating poetry from the Slovak language (Bodnárová and above all Válek) and won 2nd place in the Student Translation Contest 2007 in West Slavic Languages. In 2008, at the Poetry Tournament to determine the Chevalier of Poetry, she was tournament finalist with her poem poet-o-môra – Poet-oh-Nightmareof Mine. Her offspring of poems Iskanje hrane – The Search for Food came into existence mostly on the terraces above the Sava River, in the home village Beričevo, Dol pri Ljubljani. Therefore so many animals and trees.
