Marija Petener-Lorenzin was born in Pula in 1949. She graduated with degrees in Italian language with literature and phonetics at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, and was then employed at the Research Library of Pula (today's University Library of Pula) in 1975. She has been the head of the library of the Faculty of Philosophy in Pula (former Pedagogical Faculty) since 1995. She was the president of the Istrian Library Association, a member of the editorial board of the CIP-bulletin. She is responsible for launching the Istrian Library Association News and co-authored entries in the Istrian Encyclopaedia, and is also the author of several books and papers (Petener-Lorenzin: 2006). She is the author of the bibliography of the journal Istrian Fighter/IBOR.