As long as I run, love, see iguanas, feed my senses... I'm alive.

Katarina Lavmel

A poet, cultural worker and Polish teacher. She is the creator and organiser of two editions of the Biesiada Poetycka [Poetry Meeting] in Kobylnica as well as seven editions of a poetry competition for secondary school pupils in Słupsk and the surrounding district. She has published two poetry volumes: Żona Beduina [The Bedouin’s Wife] (Bydgoszcz 2011), Szept i przestrzeń [Whisper and Space] (Warsaw 2014), Siedem lombów i cztery strony świata( cykl azorski) (Warsaw 2014). Her poems have been published in the following anthologies and magazines: „Topos”, „Akant”, „Liry Dram”, „Poezja Dzisiaj”, „Angora”, „Mroczna Środkowo-Wschodnia Europa”, „Kontury”, „Powiat Słupski”. She has been a participant in numerous authors’ meetings, like the “Tuesday literary meetings”, or literary festivals in Poland and abroad. She is a member of the Gdańsk Poets Club and the Na Krechę Literary Group. She was awarded a grant from the President of Słupsk for culture, in 2011. She recently moved to live in Portugal, which fascinates h