Nóra Ugron (she/they, b. 1994, Târgu Secuiesc, Romania) is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Turku, Finland starting in January 2022. She has an MA in Hungarian linguistic and literary studies from the Department of Hungarian Literary Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania; and a BA in Hungarian Literature and Language (major) and Finnish Literature and Language (minor) from the Faculty of Lettres, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania.

Nóra is a poet, queer-feminist anarchist and anti-speciesist activist and a member of several radical left collectives in Romania and transnationally. They are a member of the queer–feminist literary circle Cenaclul X. She is the network coordinator at ELMO - Eastern European Left Media Outlet and a contributing editor at LeftEast. She has been involved in radical housing justice organizing in the Social Housing NOW! movement in Cluj-Napoca. She has also worked as a freelance theatre critic, mostly writing about Romanian independent political theatre.

Their debut poetry collection in Romanian, Orlando Postuman, was published at Fractalia in 2022. Orlando Postuman was shortlisted for two debut poetry prizes and has recently been published as an audiobook at Magga Books. Two poems from the book were also made into music by #FLUID queer music duo. Ten of Nóra’s poems were recently translated to Croatian for the Queer Balkan anthology of the Review of Small Literatures literary festival.

My PhD project “Transformative Imaginaries Across Queer-Feminist Literary and Liberating Activist Knowledge Production” examines contemporary queer-feminist, feminist posthumanist and/or antiracist literature and literary-activist practices from Romania, Finland and the US in order to find new ways of relatings to each other, humans and nonhumans, as well as to the world. I argue that these transformative imaginaries that are queer, antiracist and/or multispecies can contribute to achieving broader societal change towards a more just and sustainable co-habitation of the planet.