Poet, writer, playwright. She graduated in psychology from the Jagiellonian University, worked as a PR specialist, journalist and screenwriter. She has published the following poetry volumes: Po kostki w niebie, Czerwie, Berlin Porn, novels: A Barcode Man, Autumn in New York, The Lodge and a play: Project America.
As a playwright, she collaborated with the Narodowy Stary Teatr (Project America) and the Teatr Nowy in Cracow, where the premiere of her drama, The Snake Pit, took place. She also took part in the international theatre project Cracow-Berlin XPRS, realized by the Narodowy Stary Teatr in Cracow and Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. She has published prose in "Przekrój" and poetry in literary magazines. In 2018, she attended the International Czesław Miłosz Literary Festival and chaired the jury of the Rafał Wojaczek National Poetry Competition. In cooperation with the Otwarta Pracownia gallery, she creates an independent theatre stage in Cracow and regular events combining visual arts and literature. Her drama Stranger. The Greek Tragedy was staged in Poland and Germany as part of the "Game over? - on building transnational Poland-Germany-Ukraine relations" project. Her latest drama, The Whole Life, was staged in November 2019 in Cracow, at the Łaźnia Nowa Theatre, as part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of obtaining voting rights by Polish women, organized by the Association Sto Lat Głosu Kobiet (100 years of Women's Voting Rights).
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In 2013-2016 Joanna Oparek ran WeGirls S.A. publishing house and created educational and adventure literary series under the pseudonym Joanna Charms: "Girls' World Club", "Butterfly Club". (children's poems), "Travel Friends", and a series of psychological guides for girls "It's quite easy".