Adéla Mikešová (1999) was born in Písek, Czech Republic. She studied Bohemian and Ukrainian studies at Charles University in Prague, where she is currently finishing her master’s degree in Ukrainian Studies and Comparative Literary Science, researching ghosts and the undead in Ukrainian literature. She is interested in everything weird and unusual, which influences her academic interests such as magical realism, the specifics of children's literature, depictions of death in rural-related texts, and memory in fiction. Her first ever published translated book was a children’s poetry collection by Gregory Falkovych, A bug wrote to noone (orig. Комашка писала нікому: Вірші дітям., 2019). Adéla is generally interested in marginalised literature, including children’s literature, and loves to emphasise that these texts are also literature, and are worth being researched. Besides Ukrainian, she is also interested in contemporary Czech prose, Finnish literature and avant-garde texts written by women. Her role models are Milena Jesenská and Tove Jansson.