MAJA VIDMAR (b. 1961) was born in Nova Gorica, and later moved to Ljubljana, where she studied Slovenian and Comparative Literature at the University of Ljubljana. In addition to her literary career, she has pursued work in Gestalt therapy, co-developing and leading a Gestalt-based creative writing workshop for over a decade. 

Vidmar has published eight poetry collections, including Razdalje telesa (Distances of the Body, 1984), Način vezave (Ways of Binding, 1988), Ob vznožju (At the Base, 1998), Prisotnost (Presence, 2005), Sobe (Rooms, 2008), Kako se zaljubiš (How to Fall in Love, 2012), Minute prednosti (A Minute Head Start, 2015), and Pojavi (Phenomena, 2020).

Her work has received broad recognition and numerous awards. For her collection Prisotnost (Presence), she won the Jenko Award, the Prešeren Fund Award, and the Vienna Scholarship within the Grosser Preis für osteuropäische Literatur. In 2007, she was awarded the Premio Letterario Internazionale Trieste Scritture di Frontiera dedicato a Umberto Saba, and in 2009, the Network of Literary Cities Award for her collection Sobe (Rooms).

Her poetry has appeared internationally in nine translated volumes, including Leibhaftige Gedichte (Droschel, 1999), which earned her the Hubert Burda Prize for young poetry, Akt (Meandar, 1999), Molitva tijela (Tugra, 2007), Gegenwart (Edition Korrespondenzen, 2007), Način vezivanja (Udruženje književnika Banja Luka, 2009), E il mondo si scolora (Ibiskos Editore, 2010), Izby iné básne (Literarná nadácia Studňa, JSKD, 2015), and The Gift of Delay (Dalkey Archive Press, 2018). Her poems have been featured in both Slovenian and international journals and anthologies.