Katarzyna Szaulińska was born in Kołobrzeg in 1987. She is the author of Kryptodom (Biuro Literackie, 2023), Czarna ręka, zsiadłe mleko (Filtry, 2022), which has been nominated for the Nike Award, Poland’s most prestigious literary prize, and Druga Osoba (2020), a recipient of Biuro Literackie’s first-book award. She is also the author of a comic book about depression entitled Czarne fale/Murky Waves and the one-woman show Córcia [Baby girl], which was staged at the Warsaw Theatre. She lives in Warsaw, where she works as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist.