Lana Pukanić was born in 1986 in Cvjetno naselje, Zagreb. She studied Comparative Literature and English Language and Literature, and graduated with a thesis on girlhood. She was one of the founders and editors of the feminist website Muf (2014- 2018), and, after its demise, the feminist website Krilo. A selection of her texts and essays entitled Teenage Girls and Other Monsters (Fraktura) was published in 2020. She works at the Institute for Political Ecology in Zagreb, and cooperates with the club Močvara and the cultural association URK. Currently she is trying to write her first novel.