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Cvetka Lipuš (born 1966) is an Austrian poet writing in Slovenian.
She was born in Bad Eisenkappel/Železna Kapla in the Austrian province of Carinthia as the daughter of the Carinthian Slovenian author Florjan Lipuš. She attended the lyceum for Slovenes in Klagenfurt, continuing her studies in literary sciences, Slavic studies and librarian sciences at the University of Vienna, University of Klagenfurt and in Pittsburgh, where she currently lives.
She began writing poems while still in her teens and edited her first collection, V Lunini senci ("In the Shadow of the Moon") in 1985. Four years later Pragovi Dneva ("Barriers of Day") was published, which was followed by Doba temnjenja ("The Era of Darkening") in 1993. Her fourth volume of poems, Geografija bližine ("Geography of Closeness") appeared in the year 2000. In 2003, she published Spregatev milosti.
Cvetka Lipuš has received numerous prizes, and her poems are translated in several other languages including English, German, and Bulgarian.