Erik Lindner, born in The Hague, The Netherlands, in 1968, is a Dutch poet who published seven books of poetry and two novels. Words are the Worst, selected poems translated by Francis R. Jones and published in Montreal by Vehicule Press / Signal Editions, was nominated for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022. His poems were published in 2013 under the title Nach Akedia in a German translation by Rosemarie Still by Matthes & Seitz Berlin Verlag. Lindner is founder of Terras, the magazine in the Netherlands for international literature. He lives in Amsterdam and works as a freelance writer, teacher and critic. Apart from English and German, several books of his translated poetry appeared in France and Italy.