Meet the two candidates from Czechia who have been selected to participate in the 2024/2025 Ulysses' Shelter 3 residency programme.

Klára Krásenská (*1995) studied Historical Sciences at the Catholic Theological Faculty and Czech studies at the Faculty of Arts (Charles University) and she is currently studying Comparative Literature there. She works as a book editor, writes critical texts about literature and occasionally translates. Her own texts have so far been published in Tvar, Prostor Zlín, and Psí víno. She is one of the co-authors of the book Teorém kamenné zahrady (Theorem of the Stone Garden; UMPRUM, 2023). Her debut poetry collection Mýtinami (Through the Clearings; Viriditas, 2023) was included in the 2024 Magnesia Litera annual book awards longlist for poetry and also nominated in the DILIA Debut of the Year category.

Ondřej Lipár is a poet, journalist, and photographer. He has published three books of poetry: Skořápky (Nutshells, 2004), Komponent (Component, 2014), and Retro (2023). For more than a decade, he has been cooperating with the respected publisher Éditions Fra. Since 2020, he has been producing Do slov, a literary podcast, together with Barbora Votavová. He was a chairman of the Czech Writers' Association and currently works as the Managing Editor of Vogue CS.