Nenden Lilis A., born in Malangbong-Garut (West Java) in 1971, works as a lecturer in the Department of Education and Literature at the Indonesian Education University (UPI/Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia) in Bandung. Both her short fiction and poems have appeared in numerous national publications as well as in anthologies. She is a frequent invitee to literary conferences both at home and abroad (Malaysia, the Netherlands, and France). Her poems have been translated into English, Dutch, and German.