Katrine Marie Guldager (born 1966) has worked with poetry and prose and has proven herself in both genres to be a pioneering, form-shattering, poetic original. Guldager received a graduate-level degree in Danish from the University of Copenhagen in 1994 and made her debut that same year with her collection of poetry, Dagene skifter hænder (The Days Change Hands) . Guldager attended Forfatterskolen (The Danish Writers' School) in Copenhagen. She belongs to the '90s generation in Danish Literature and has become one of its most prominent and personal voices. In 1995, she published a collection of poetry entitled Styrt (Crash) which was translated into English in 1999. Guldager's latest book is a collection of short stories entitled København (Copenhagen)
“jeg føler mig som en havoverflade når ringene breder sig: jeg bliver aldrig færdig med noget, jeg bliver ikke færdif med en tilstand, før en ny begynder, jeg får bare flere og flere tilstande, og de er nødt til at være inde i mig: jeg flytter mig ikke fra èn tilstand til en anden, jeg kan ikke komme af med de gamle tilstande, de sætter sig et eller andet sted, i et depot, under et ribbeb eller i et led, og der er ikke noget der fastgør dem til en bestemt plads, de har ikke nogen”