Barbora HRÍNOVÁ (1984) studied at the Film and TV Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava where she now works in the Screenwriting Department. She did her post-doctoral research about contemporary film at Ilia State University in Tbilisi; she also spent five months at a university in California. She is a three-time finalist of the short-story competition Poviedka (2008, 2017 and 2018). She develops radio documentaries for both the and Czech national broadcasting.