Izabela Zubko

She was born in Warsaw, raised in Dęblin, Poland. She graduated from Literary-Artistic studies at the Faculty of Polish Studies at Jagiellonian University in Cracow. She is a member of the Polish Writers’ Union (Związek Literatów Polskich), the Polish Authors’ Association of the 2 Warsaw Branch (Stowarzyszenie Autorów Polskich), a literary-musical group “Terra Poetica”, and the Association of Culture Originators in Warsaw (Warszawskie Stowarzyszenie Twórców Kultury).

A musical composition inspired by her poem Romantyka (Romanticism) became a musical showpiece of “Neoclassic” duet. In 2007 Aleksander Chodakowski, the composer, and Natalia Miżygórska, the singer, were awarded the prize of the Polish Ambassador in Ukraine for this musical piece. They represented Ukraine with this song during the International Poetry Festival named after Maria Konopnicka in Przedbórz. Izabela Zubko's poems arranged by Michał Pastuszak are being sung by the participants of vocal workshops in the Culture Center in Dęblin and by singer Alina Małachowska.

During the years of 2007–2017 Izabela Zubko was a member of the editorial team of Myśl Literacka (Literary Thought), the supplement in weekly magazine Myśl Polska (Polish Thought). In 2017 she started working in Metafora Współczesności (The Metaphor of Contemporariness), the periodical of the international literary group Kwadrat (The Square). She is actively cooperating with a social-cultural magazine Własnym Głosem (With my own Voice) published by the Workers’ Association of Culture Originators (Robotnicze Stowarzyszenie Twórców Kultury).