Gabriela Milkova Robins (previously Gabriela Michele Milkova) is a Macedonian poet and SGSAH-funded PhD researcher in the School of English based at the University of St Andrews. Her work has been published by Bad Saturn Media, Seedlings, Wrong Directions, 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 was the StAnza 2023 Poet-in-Residence, given in partnership with the Edwin Morgan Trust, holding the Translation Award. Her recent work focuses on folklore, inter-lingual crossovers, myth, ritual, and melody. This work was partly developed during her StAnza residency and for a commission by Scotland's Makar, Peter Mackay, for his project "Many-Voiced Country", funded by the Scottish Poetry Library and hosted by the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2025.
Her visual poetry was featured in the annual off-page 24 visual poetry exhibition in Many Studios, Glasgow and in the off-page StAnza 2025 Kallax exhibition, and she has since joined Glasgow City of Poets.
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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