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Writer, Photographer, Airbnb Superhost.
I am first and foremost a mother to three young boys, which from experience feels like a part-time job. I divide the rest of my time between work and writing.

I have wanted to write for as long as I can remember so that´s what I went to study – journalism. During my studies I have discovered photography, which completely captivated me. For almost two decades, I pursued both — writing articles for LN, Reflex and iDNES, and
photographing portraits in my own studio from 2007 to 2017.

Co-working on the book Bohemian Taboo Stories was a defining experience for me though, than articles. It allowed me to go right to the heart of things and write about reality without embellishment. Fiction has never felt natural to me — I am interested in reality as it is.

I also created a shared home in Krusne Mountains and take care of renting it out. It is deeply rewarding for me when our guests truly feel at home there. I experience the same feeling while looking first time at a well done photo portrait or when singular thoughts connect into a paragraph.

As a photographer I work in a special day light studio in Prague, where I photograph portraits using black and white film only. I try to capture true energy of my objects and I love when we afterwarsd discover together that is realy there, present on the photos.

My latest book, How I Don’t See It (2026), grew out of a need to write about the mysteries I have encountered, as well as out of a kind of despair over the fact that our children did not want to read the books we loved when we were their age. The concept of reality, which has
always felt deeply familiar to me, ultimately brought everything together quite naturally — the shared home, the energy in my photographs, and the book itself, which is a REAL STORY.