Ivana Gibová graduated from the Department of Slovak Language and Literature at Faculty of Arts of Prešov University. She made her debut with the collection of short stories Usadenina/The Sediment (2013), which as a manuscript won the Debut 2011 competition and, after its publication, won the Debut of the Year. Selected short stories from the book Usadenina have been translated into German, English, Serbian, Hindi. Her second book Bordeline (2014) became a model for the Stoka Theater and the Nekroteatro Theater in Prague. In 2016, she published the book Barbora, boch & katarzia/Barbora, God & Catharsis, which was nominated for the Anasoft litera award 2017; won the René Anasoft high school letter and was nominated for the Ján Johanides Prize for the best prose book by an author under the age of 35. This book has been translated into Czech and was published under the name Barbora, buch a katarze (2018) by Protimluv, as well as into German under the name Barbora, Himmelherrgott & Katharsis (2021). Some excerpts were published in magazines in Hungary and dramatized on the Slovenian radio. In 2020, the comics-short stories book Eklektik Bastard was published, which was nominated for the Anasoft Litera award, won the Panta Rhei awards and the Tatrabanka award. It was translated into Czech and published by Argo in 2022.
