Gabriela Michele (Gabriela Milkova Robins) is a Macedonian poet and SGSAH-funded PhD researcher in the School of English based at the University of St Andrews. Her work has appeared in Seedlings, The AI Literary Review, The Ekphrastic Review, DIVERSITY – International Review for Literature and Art, OKNO.MK, Zenit Magazine, and three Macedonian anthologies. Her bilingual poetry pamphlet, The Peak of Tonight, was published in 2016 by Metanoja Publishing. Do You Know the Sea?, a series of five audial poems, was released in 2020, debuting on UK Radio.,
She is the StAnza 2023 Poet-in-Residence, given in partnership with the Edwin Morgan Trust, holding the Translation Award. For this, she produced new work in Macedonian and English for StAnza’s 2023 festival theme: “WILD: Forms of Resistance”.
She was a featured artist in the annual off-page 24 visual poetry exhibition in Many Studios, Glasgow and in the off-page StAnza 2025 Kallax exhibition.
She has been on the committee of The Directorate of Arts and Culture – Skopje and the planning committee of StAnza – Scotland’s Poetry Festival.
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