Born in Austria, Cvetka Lipu¿ is the author of seven collections of poetry in Slovenian. Kaj smo, ko smo(2015), for which Lipu¿ received the Pre¿eren Foundation Award, was short-listed for the Veronika Prize, the most prestigious poetry prize in Slovenia. Tom Priestly is professor emeritus in the Department of Modern Languages and Culture Studies at the University of Alberta and the author of numerous translations including Jani Virk¿s The Last Temptation of Sergiy(2016).