Cvetka Lipuš (1966) was born in Železna Kapla/Bad Eisenkappel in Austria. She studied comparative literature and Slavic Studies in Klagenfurt, and Library and Information Science in Pittsburgh, USA. She co-edited the Carinthian Slovene minority literary magazine Mladje from the early 1990s until 2000. Between 1995 and 2010 she lived in the United States and then moved to Salzburg, Austria. She grew up as a member of the Slovene minority in Austria and writes poetry in Slovene as well as non-fiction in German and English. She has published eight collections of poetry so far, including Spregatev milosti (Conjugating Mercy) (Cankarjeva založba, 2003), Obleganje sreče (Siege of Happiness) (Cankarjeva založba, 2008), Pojdimo vezat kosti (Let's Go Stitch Bones) (Mladinska knjiga, 2010), Kaj smo, ko smo (What We Are When We Are) (Beletrina, 2015), and Odhajanje za začetnike (Leaving for Beginners) (Beletrina, 2021). She has received several fellowships and awards, among others the Government Fellowship for Literature from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Arts, the Acceleration Award for Literature from the State of Carinthia, the Project Fellowships from the Republic of Austria, the Prešeren Fund Award (2016), and the Poetry Award of the State of Carinthia (2020).