(born 1978) botanist, poet, visual artist, and musician, graduate of the Faculty of Forestry at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences and the Academy of Film and Television majoring in editing, assistant professor at the Independent Department of Forestry Botany at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. In her research work, she deals with biomechanics, aerodynamics, regeneration after injury, and plant movement.
 

In 2015, together with a group of artists, she created the artistic project Cambium Killers, which is an expression of opposition to the new system of valuating science. She is also the author of the film Metamorphosis of Plants (2016), inspired by the work of J.W. Goethe under the same title. The film won the SCINEMA International Film Festival in the Best Experimental Film/Animation category.

Her debut volume of poetry Atomy ('Atoms', 2014) was nominated for the Silesius Wrocław Poetry Award and won a distinction at the XI National Literary Competition Golden Mean of Poetry (2015) for the best debut volume of poetry in 2014. In 2017, she received the Kościelski Foundation Award for her volume minimum ('minimum', 2017). In 2018, the volume minimum was placed in the finale of the Silesius Wrocław Poetry Award in the book of the year category. She lives in Wołomin.

In 2019, she published her essay book Patyki, badyle (“Sticks and Stalks”, Margines Publishing House), which, in the same year, was awarded the Golden Rose by the Book Institute, the Nowe Książki (‘New Books’) magazine, and the Science Festival. The book was also nominated for the Polityka’s Passport Award and the Witold Gombrowicz Award, and it received the 2020 Gdynia Literary Prize in the essay category.

She founded the popular science website botanik.pl. A columnist of the culture magazine "Dwutygodnik", she cooperates regularly with the quarterly "Przekrój".

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

• Atomy, Zeszyty Poetyckie, Gniezno 2014
• minimum, Wydawnictwo Warstwy, Wrocław 2017
• Patyki, badyle, Wydawnictwo Marginesy, Warszawa 2019