Inara Cedrins is an artist, writer and translator. Her anthology of contemporary Latvian poetry written while Latvia was under Soviet occupation was published by the University of Iowa Press, and her new Baltic anthology, three books of poetry from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, has been published by the University of New Orleans Press, with her prints as cover art.
She guest-edited a section on contemporary Baltic poetry for the November 2008 issue of WLT, and two of her own illustrated poems appeared in the July 2008 issue.