Karlo Hmeljak was born in 1983 in Koper. In 2007 he published his first book Dve leti pod ničlo (Two Years Bellow Zero, LUD Literatura), which won the author a nomination for the Best First Book Award and an invitation to the Pranger Poetry Festival, followed by two poetry collections Ljubavne (Love Poems, KUD Kentaver) and Krčrk (A Conculsion of Letters, LUD Literatura) in 2012. The latter received the Veronika Award. He publishes his poems and translations in the literary magazine Idiot, of which he is also a co-editor.
