Lina Leonore Morawetz is a writer and translator based in Vienna▸ and on the right bank of the Morava River. She writes short prose and documentary fiction. A recurring motif in her work is disappearances, and the gestalts through which the unknown, unresolved, and unsaid might reappear. She also teaches and takes on comissions. Member of the Austrian Writers’ Association and the Austrian Forum for Literary Translation▸. I offer individual writing tutorials. Contact
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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. 

Short prose and documentary fiction have appeared with Sonderzahl and (upcoming) Mandelbaum publishers, as well as in literary magazines such as Mahkzin (Lebanon), Das Narr (Switzerland), Edit (Germany), SALZ, and Podium (Austria). 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. Her short prose piece Motten (Moths) recieved third price in the Edit Essay Award (2013). 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. Since 2019, she has been a lecturer in writing at art universities in Germany and Austria. 
She holds degrees from Goldsmiths, University of London, the German Institute for Literature at Leipzig University, and the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy, and has studied Contact Improvisation, an experimental and experiential dance form. (Family) research travels have taken her to Mexico, Russia, and beyond. Born in Salzburg-Lehen (Austria) in 1981, she lives and works in Vienna and on the right bank of the Morava River. She has been involved in organic farming in Italy since 1999.