Kristina Lugn (1948–2020) is the author of eight collections of poetry and eighteen plays, the former artistic director of the Brunnsgatan Fyra theatre in Stockholm, Sweden, and a member of the Swedish Academy. She’s also the winner of the Selma Lagerlöf Literature Prize (1999) and the Bellman Prize (2003). A chapbook of her poems called I Want You to Come Now!, translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel, is forthcoming from Bloof in 2020.
