Cvetka Lipuš
She was born in Bad Eisenkappel in the Austrian state of Carinthia and is the daughter of the Carinthian Slovenian author Florjan Lipuš.She lived in the United States from the early 1990s to 2009 and studied library and information sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.She began writing poems while still in her teens and edited her first anthology, a collection of Slovene poetry, V lunini senci (In the Shadow of the Moon), in collaboration with Fabjan Hafner in 1985.Four years later Pragovi dneva (Thresholds of the Day) was published, which was followed by Doba temnjenja (Times of Darkness) in 1993.Lipuš has received numerous prizes, and her poems have been translated into several other languages, including English, German, and Bulgarian.