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Lina Morawetz is a writer and translator▸ based in Vienna▸ and on the right bank of the Morava River. She teaches at art universities. Her short prose and documentary fiction have appeared with Sonderzahl and Mandelbaum publishers, as well as in literary magazines and anthologies. A recurring motif in her work is disappearance, and the gestalts through which the unknown, unresolved, and unsaid might reappear. Feel free to contact me also for comissions, writing workshops or individual tutorials.
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After graduating high school at 17, she left Austria for Rome, where she volunteered with an environmental association and a self-organized community center. (Family) research travels have taken her to Mexico, Russia, and beyond. She holds degrees from Goldsmiths, University of London; the German Institute for Literature at Leipzig University; and the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen in Italy. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Arts in Linz. Since 2019, she has been a lecturer at art universities in Germany and Austria. She is a member of the Austrian Writers’ Association and the Austrian Forum for Literary Translation. 

Short prose and documentary fiction have appeared with Sonderzahl and Mandelbaum publishers, as well as in literary magazines such as Mahkzin (Lebanon), Das Narr (Switzerland), Edit (Germany), SALZ, and Podium (Austria). She received third prize in the Edit Essay Award (2013). Essays and other contributions have been published in artist books in Germany, Austria, and Canada, as well as in art magazines including Camera Austria International. She was writer-in-residence at Villa Empain (Brussels), Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna) and in Paliano (Italy). 

Her writing has been supported by BMKÖS and Land Salzburg (AT), the Austrian Society for Literature, the Austrian Cultural Forum Mexico, and the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony (DE), among others.