Anise Koltz was born in Luxembourg in 1928 and is a major contemporary poet. She is the founder and director of the festival Les Journées de Mondorf, as well as a member of the Mallarmé Academy in Paris and of the Grand-Ducal Institute of Arts and Letters. She is also Vice President of the European Academy of Poetry. Her many books include The Wall of the Alphabet, The Cry of the Hawk, The Land Rises, and I Shall Be Born.