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Mgr. Lenka Šafranová, PhD. (1986) works at the East Slovak Museum in Kosice. She is a literary scholar, poet, deputy editor-in-chief of the journal of poetry and poets Vertigo, semantic editor, lecturer of creative workshops, judge of literary competitions, editor, co-editor and responsible editor of several artistic and literary science publications (Lýdia Vadkerti Gavorníková - Pohromnice, dandan - Stiahnuté z kože, TOP 5 2017 /Slovak literary scene 2017 in professional reflection/, etc. ), co-author and moderator of the online show about poetry and literary life Vertigo café, co-founder and organizer of the world online poetry festival Vertigo fest, whose first year was attended by renowned authors from 22 countries. She focuses primarily on contemporary Slovak poetry, écriture féminine and theoretical issues related to literary terminology. She publishes reviews and studies in domestic and foreign journals and periodicals (Vertigo, Glosolália, Knižná revue, Fraktál), and is a stable part of the literary-critical project TOP 5, reviewing the 5 best books in the field of poetry and the 5 best books in the field of prose for a particular year. In 2012/2013 she was the head of the project On the Function of the Subject in Slovak Poetry by Women Authors (the so-called Text Generation). The outcome of the project was a monograph with the same title, co-authored and reviewed by representatives from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Prešov, as well as renowned experts from other faculties and the Academy of sciences, who are among the top scientists devoted to the study of poetry. In 2021, she participated as a literary critic in the annual evaluation of the Book Review and judged the book production in the field of non-debut poetry for 2020. She writes both poetry and prose, and is also a multiple laureate of literary competitions (Akademický Prešov, Literární květen, Litera, Poetická Ľubovňa, Literárne Šurany, Rekreatúra, Medziriadky, and others). In 2018, her debut collection of poems Post partum was published, thematizing the experience of childbirth, postpartum depression and the change in the life of a person who becomes a parent for the first time. She is currently completing the manuscript of her second collection of poems, Time of the Amphibians, and her children's poetry debut, What If, is forthcoming in print.

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