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Poet, author of seven poetry collections and fiction writer: five novels and one collection of short stories. She is one of the organizers and participant of women stand up group in Riga. Her poetry collections published in English, Spanish and Polish. In anthologies poems of Inga Gaile has been published in Estonia, Lithuania, Ecuador, Germany, India and other countries. With her unique brand of humor, she explores inner states of being, her own experiences, the everyday lives of women and stigmatized groups of society, while promoting equal rights. Poetry collection in English is called 30 questions people don’t ask, it was published in US, Pleiades Press. The same collection of poems was published in Spanish translation  in Peru, Spain and Mexico. She has received the Latvian literature award for her poetry collection Does the second group hear me?, Anna Dagda and Ojāra Vācieša awards for poetry collection cry mustn’t laugh (raudāt nedrīkst smieties), Ojāra Vācieša and Poetry days award award for poetry collection Maria of cakes (Kūku Marija), Poetry days award for collection Fog. Her poetry collections Fog (Migla) and Easter (Lieldienas) has been shortlisted for Latvian literature award. In 2016. the first novel The glass shards (Stikli) was published. It is translated in Estonian and recently been published in Italy as Frammenti di vetro.  Her first detective novel Invisibles (Neredzamie) was published in 2017.  Collection of short stories Ways of milk (Piena ceļi) followed. Novel The Beautiful ones (Skaistās) in 2020. received Latvian literature award as the best novel of the year. In 2021. her novel Writer of her own (Rakstītāja) is published. Her recent novel Jaukumiņš is tragicomedy about divorce, sex and misogyny. Her novels are translated in Estonian, Lithuanian, Italian, German.