Stanislava Miková comes from the renowned Giňa and Mika families, who came to Rokycany, where she was born, from Slovakia after World War II. She studied preschool and extracurricular education at the Secondary Teacher-Training School in Beroun. Since then, she has tutored children and led art clubs at the community centre, taught Romani, worked at a practical school in Beroun as an assistant for socially disadvantaged children, participated in the Memory of the Roma project as an interviewer of eyewitnesses, and currently works at the primary school in Králův Dvůr-Počáply as a teacher.
She writes mainly in Romani. Her work has been published e.g. in the Roma studies journal Romano džaniben (short story “Šov berš” / “Six Years”), in the magazine Romano voďi, on the Romea.cz website, etc. Her short story “Porušený slib” / “The Broken Promise” appeared in the book O mulo! Povídky o duchách zemřelých (Look, A Ghost! Stories About the Ghosts of the Dead, Kher, 2019). In the Christmas literary supplement of the Respekt weekly (2019), she published a short story entitled “1989”. The publishing houses Kher and Meander (2024) co-edited a Romani-Czech picture book (concertina) based on a fairy tale by Matěj Šarközi, Tade jandre / Hard-Boiled Eggs, which Miková retold in Romani for the youngest listeners. Her short story “Povídej” / “Tell Me a Story” was published in Fameľija nadevše (Family Above All Else, Slovo 21 2024) and “Maminka” / “Mum” came out in Podphandle mašľičkenca / Podvázané mašličkami (Tubes Tied with Ribbons, Slovo 21 2025).
She is a member of the Paramisara Romani Writers’ Club under the auspices of the Slovo 21 organization. She is currently working on a series of short stories about six-year-old Janička, set in the period after 1990, and on a novel mapping her family history, which her grandfather, the writer Andrej Giňa, began writing before his death.
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