Hello. Hallo.

My name is Lena Kraus. I’m a writer, speaker and translator. I love what I do because I love texts — creating them, working with them and making them come to life.
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LATEST NEWS:

I wrote the Libretto for ‘Do I Dare Eat A Peach’, a pocket opera Charlie Flinn Barker wrote the Music for. This was a Project with the University of edinburgh and Mahogany opera.

it was a fantastic experience to have my writing set to music. you can watch a video with charlie’s score here.

Watch with score

You Can get Hillfire Anthology Volume 1 and 2 Here! I have a short story in both of them.

I Was in a podcast with UK Coaching. It’s all about showing up for each other (in sport). Quite chuffed with how it turned out, thank you for All your lovely feedback! Listen Here (For free).

I've been quiet for far too long. Hope you all had a good start to the new year!
Things have been good (exciting stuff happening over at @hillfire_press , where we're we're working on our second volume, and at the @theselkieuk , where a few team posi

I'm through my second annual review and into the third year of my PhD!!!

The meeting was last Wednesday and was just a lovely conversation about what I'm doing and that I should carry on with it because it's working. I'm on track to finish in a tota

The writing mug (cf. my previous post) came to the rescue and I got everything handed in on time, and even to a standard that I'm happy with, considering everything that has been going on. I had a meeting with my supervisor that wasn't what I expecte