A native of Slovenia, Darka Erdelji received a Masters of Arts in Puppet Scenography from Prague’s Akadmie Muzickych Umeni. She lived in St. John’s with her Newfoundland-born partner and their children for several years; during that time, she began collaborating with Andy Jones, first on their puppet play “The Queen of Paradise’s Garden”, and then on their acclaimed series of illustrated Jack tales. Darka currently designs puppets for Lutkovno Gledališče Maribor, a state-of-the-art Slovenian puppet theatre housed in a renovated medieval monastery.
Her books with Running the Goat are: The Queen of Paradise’s Garden, Jack and the Manger, Jack and Mary in the Land of Thieves, Jack, the King of Ashes, Jack and the Green Man, and (with Sheree Fitch) Polly MacCauley's Finest, Divinest, Woolliest Gift of All.
