Ron Winkler was born in 1973 and lives in Berlin and Jena. He broke through as a poet in 2004 with the collection vereinzelt Passanten (Here and There Passers-by). Berlin Verlag published his collection Fragmentierte Gewässer (Fragmented Bodies of Water) in 2007, followed by Frenetische Stille (Frenetic Silence) in 2010.