Poet and writer from the Slovenian minority in Carinthia. Her debut novel by „Angel of Oblivion“ was waraded by Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. She studied theater studies and German philology at the University of Vienna. She lived in Ljubljana for some time and settled permanently in Klagenfurt. For many years she was a literary director at the Municipal Theater and an academic teacher. She published poetry, mainly in Slovenian, and translations from Slovenian into German.