Cvetka Lipuš was born in Železna Kapla /Eisenkappel (Austria). She studied Comparative Literature and Slavic Studies at the University of Klagenfurt and Library and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA). She lived in America for 15 years and now lives and works in Salzburg. Having grown up as member of the Slovenian minority in Austria, she writes poetry in Slovenian and sometimes non-fiction in German and English. She has published eight collections of poetry to date: Thresholds of the Day, Time of Darkening, Cartography of Closeness, Conjugating Mercy, Siege of Happiness, Let’s Go Stitch Bones, What We Are When We Are, and Leaving for Beginners. Cvetka Lipuš has been translated into several languages. She was nominated for the Veronika Prize in 2008 and 2015, and for the 2019 Canadian Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry. She has received several fellowships and awards, including 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 Fellowship from the Republic of Austria, the Prešeren Fund Award (2016) for her collection “What We Are When We Are”, and the Poetry Award of the State of Carinthia (2020).
