Ivars Šteinbergs (1991) is a poet, critic, and translator from Riga, Latvia. His second collection of poems Jaunība (Youth, 2022), published by Neputns, received the Annual Latvian Literature Award in 2023. His first book Strops (Hive), also published by Neputns in 2020, received The Poetry Days Award in 2021, as well as the Ojārs Vācietis Literary Prize in Poetry. Šteinbergs has been actively publishing poems, translations, and literary criticism in various outlets (Satori, Punctummagazine, Domuzīme et al.) since 2012. He is a researcher at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia (ILFA) and a lecturer at the Latvian Academy of Culture. In 2017, he received a Fulbright grant to study comparative literature in the U.S.A., and he earned his M.A. in Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Binghamton (SUNY, Binghamton) in 2018. Šteinbergs has translated Imants Ziedonis' poetry and epiphanies into English. He has also translated the poetry of various foreign poets into Latvian (Louise Glück, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Franz Wright, Sharon Olds, Jan Wagner et al.).