Maria (1977) is a Czechoslovakia-born writer and journalist dividing her time between Bratislava and NYC. Her short-stories collection Lu & Mira was published in 2011 by KK Bagala and her novel, Tichy rezim - The Silent Mode - came out in November 2013 (publisher: drewo & srd). Her fiction has been featured in various magazines, e.g. 3:AM, Kinglux, Bushwick Daily, Anderbo, The Prague Revue, Inspire, EVA, SME Daily, Pravda.  She has translated David Foster Wallace's This Is Water into Slovak (the book was published in August 2013 in Slovakia). She contributes to various Slovak periodicals on a regular basis and also co-edits the arts&culture revue VLNA.