Lisandri Kola, born 1986 in Shkodër, studied Albanian Language and Literature in his hometown and in 2010 obtained an MSc in Criticism and Literary Theory from the University of Tirana. In 2014 he earned a PhD in Literary Sciences from the same University.
Since January 2016 he has been a full time Professor of Albanian Modern Literature and History of Albanian Sonnet at the Department of Literature in the Faculty of History and Philology at the University of Tirana and also teaches Theory of Translation at the Department of Journalism and Communication. He has published a number of books of poetry, translations, research and a novel. With his poetry collection Butterflies Die in May (2014), he won the National Zef Pllumi Prize. Kola’s poetry has been published in English and Montenegrin. He is also a playwright.