Dr. Speier is an award-winning poet, translator, and literary scholar living in Berlin. His poetry has appeared in eight volumes and over 40 anthologies and has been translated into ten languages. In 2007 he received the Schiller Award. He was awarded the “Literaturpreis der A und A Kulturstiftung” in Spring 2011.
He is the founder and publisher of the literary magazine PARK: Zeitschrift für neue Literatur. He is also the editor of Celan-Jahrbuch and the author of several poetry collections including Haupt-Stadt-Studio (Aphaia-Verlag, 2012).