Vladimir P. Štefanec (1964) was born in Ljubljana. He graduated in philosophy and art history from the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. He has published twelve works of fiction, eleven novels and a thematic collection of short stories. His literary characters are characterised by the fact that they try to achieve the impossible and that they do not fit into the various life situations and systems. He has been nominated four times for the Kresnik Award (most recently for his novel Najlepša neznanka svetloba (The Most Beautiful Unknown Light) (Mladinska knjiga, 2018) and for the Desetnica Award for his young adult novel Sem punk čarovnica, Debela lezbijka in ne maram vampov (I am a Punk Witch, a Fat Lesbian and Do not Like Vampires) (Modrijan, 2015). Štefanec is an active publicist. For ten years he wrote articles, reviews and essays on world literature, then worked as an art critic for a leading Slovene daily newspaper for twenty years, contributing articles on the visual arts. He has published over 700 articles in leading Slovene media and is also a lecturer in photography theory. He lives as a freelance cultural worker in Ljubljana.