The Secret Box

About Daina Tabuna

Daina Tabna (1985) is a prose writer. Daina Tabna's short story collection Pirm reize (The first time) was nominated for the Annual Latvian Literary Award 2014 as the best debut of the year. Pirm reize immediately won over many readers and critics and has become a cult book of its time in Latvia. In 2010 Daina Tabna completed her studies with a BA in Theatre cinema and TV drama at the Latvian Academy of Culture. Her professional experience includes writing for a television soap opera leading a photography club for 10-year-old Bulgarians managing public relations for a closed museum and extended periods of unemployment. She is passionate about hiking and being silly. Jayde Will (1978) is a literary translator. He has an M.A. in Fenno-Ugric Linguistics from Tartu University. His translations of Latvian Lithuanian and Estonian authors have been published in numerous journals including Poetry Review Trafika and Mantis as well as anthologies such as the Dedalus Book of Lithuanian Literature and several Best European Fiction anthologies. He has also translated subtitles for numerous films including the Lithuanian classic The Devils Bride and the award-winning Vanishing Waves. Artist-printmaker Mark Andrew Webber specialises in painstakingly-researched typographic and geometric projects including his Where in the World series of enormous city maps and FORM a six-part study of line and form. In 2007 Webber was awarded a Silver Cube award from the Art Directors Club of New York. His first solo exhibition Wonderlust was on display at the Londonewcastle Project Space in London in 2014. He collaborated with poet Jacqueline Saphra on her pamphlet If I Lay on my Back I Saw Nothing but Naked Women (Emma Press 2014) illustrating her poems with linocuts inspired by his lifedrawing sketches. He is based in Reading.