Hanneleele Kaldmaa is a writer and artist. Hanneleele’s first poetry collection Oliver was published in 2017 and is among the Betti Alver Debut Prize nominees. Last autumn, she published her second book, Sinustki võib saada fossiil (You too can become a fossil), much of which was written while she was studying at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Tartu; it is about fungi and fossils, memory, and myths. She has been awarded the First Step Literary Prize (2015) and the Värske Rõhk annual prize in the poetry category (2016) for her work.