Stanislava Ondová was born in eastern Slovakia but considers Chomutov in North Bohemia her hometown. She graduated from local Business Academy and worked in the pilot program for field social workers, spent a year in a nursery school in Jirkov, led educational, cultural and social projects at the Romea organization in Prague, and also worked in the sales gallery of the Romen association. After ten years, she decided to make a change and moved to the commercial sector.
She has published her comments on the Romea.cz website and has been an external editor of the magazine Romano voďi (Romani Soul) for many years. For her series of articles Den na periferii (A Day on the Periphery), in which she used literary form to recount the real-life stories of people from her region, she was nominated for the 2020 OSF Journalism Award. The same magazine also published her short stories” Letní Romance” / “Summer Romance” and “Cizinec” / “The Stranger”. Her horror short story “Láska až za hrob” / “Undying Love” was included in the anthology O mulo! Povídky o duchách zemřelých (Look, A Ghost! Stories About the Ghosts of the Dead, Kher, 2019). Her short story “V bublině” / “In a Bubble” appeared in the anthology Samet blues (Velvet Blues, Kher, 2021). In the anthology Fameľija nadevše (Family Above All Else, Slovo 21, 2024), she published the story “Odpuštění” / “Forgiveness”.
She writes in Czech.
Photo: Kher archives
