Pia Prezelj (1995) was born in Slovenia and is a writer, translator, and journalist for Delo, Slovenia’s largest daily newspaper. In 2022, she was awarded the Young Journalist of the Year Watchdog Award by the Slovenian Journalists’ Association. Her debut novel, Heavy Water (Težka voda) (Goga, 2023), which explores the life of an elderly woman in a remote rural village, won the Debut of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Cankar Award, the Kresnik Award for Best Novel of the Year, and the Critics’ Sieve Award. Her work has been supported by renowned residencies, including the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (LCB) and Leeuwarden, UNESCO City of Literature.