Maruša Krese was a writer, journalist and psychotherapist who for the past fifteen years had lived and worked abroad. She wrote poetry published by prominent foreign Slovene language publishers abroad. Prior to the year 2006 neither her poetry collections nor her book Pisma Žensk o Vojni in Nacionalizmu (Women’s Letters on War and Nationalism) were published in her homeland; however, the 2006 publication happened in Slovenia of Vsi Moji Božiči (All My Christmases).