Bastian Schneider has published several volumes of flash fiction and prose poetry, including Der Winterschlaf der Zugvögel (2016), Die Schrift, die Mitte, der Trost (2018), and Paris im Titel (2020). He is the recipient of the Dietrich Wellershoff and Rolf Dieter Brinkmann fellowships, among others, and was nominated for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2016. He is a guest lecturer in creative writing at the University of Cologne and lives in Cologne and Vienna.

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