I’m a research professor, who occasionally likes to escape the everyday to the world of poetry. I love swans, Chopin and watching the clouds. Sometimes, from a fleeting spurt of inspiration, my thoughts come to me as metaphors and create a unique, authentic space which longs to be shared.  I firmly believe in the power of such spaces to capture the serendipity of life. My lyric confessions are an invitation to open up these spaces in you and your friends.

My official biography is on Versopolis. If you want to know more about me, check the things I love, including the most personalized book I ever received.

I've been writing poetry since I was a young girl. Around the age of 13, I started putting together small booklets entitled "Miniature minutes of poetry" which I shared with family and friends. My first collection The butterfly's tremblings in the digital age was published by Cakanka after I had won a national poetry competition in my native Slovakia. The collection has been translated by Prof Emeritus Inge Stahl & Dr Jaroslav Stahl into German and published by Hein Verlag in December 2015. The English version (translated by John Minahane) was published by Parthian Books in autumn 2017. The book is currently being translated to French by Anna Franova.

My English language poems featured in MK Calling in 2013 and 2015, appeared in anthologies and several poetry magazines, including Acumen, Atticus Review, The Cardiff Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Envoi or Sentinel Literary Quarterly (see selected poems), and have also been recreated as filmpoems and dancepoems. In 2014 and 2015, I was the Poet in Residence at the Westbury Arts Centre and collaborated with several artists there. I wrote ekphrastic poems in response to Kate Wyatt's paintings (see Colours of the Swan) and my first English pamphlet, Autumn Dedications.  My third pamphlet was published by Eyewear Publications.

I love playing piano and harp, especially when I need to take my mind off of life's heavy stuff. I currently live in Stavanger, Norway, where I work at the university and chair the Stavanger Poetry Society.