Zuzana Kepplová graduated from the Academy of Arts and Music in Bratislava, and obtained her Ph.D. from the Central European University in Budapest. Currently she works as editor of the opinion section in the daily paper SME and writes commentaries. She is the author of three books of prose – Buchty švabachom (Buns in Gothic Scripture, 2011), 57 km od Taškentu (57 km far from Tashkent, 2013) and Reflux (2015). Her short stories and excerpts have been published in collections of Slovak prose and translated into Dutch, German, Slovenian and Hindi. Her first two books were published in one volume in Hungarian; the Polish translation of the latest book is on the way.