Born in 1958. Published 12 collections of poetry and one of essays, received two national cultural prizes and numerous literary prizes. Books of her poetry have appeared in Russian, German, Latvian, Swedish, Thai, has also been translated into French, English, Dutch, Hindi, Norwegian, Czech, Slovenic, Polish, Welsh, Scottish, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Romanian, Irish, Greek, Hebrew.
Has translated poetry, plays and essays (Ahmatova, Auden, Beckett, Brodsky, Dickinson, Gibran, Kabir, Shakespeare etc), compiled anthologies, written essays and articles, texts for classical music and theatre.
Worked as a stipendiate in United States, Sweden, Greece, Ireland, Flanders, Italy, had readings in London, Paris, Dublin, Brussels, Vienna, Bangkok, in numerous places in United States, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Scotland, Netherlands, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania, and, of course, Estonia.