Veronica Buckley was born in New Zealand. Alongside her first studies in languages and philosophy, she trained as a classical ‘cellist, and worked for some time as an orchestral musician before taking up history scholarships at London and Oxford. While in England, Veronica wrote a series of children’s stories for performance with orchestra, before moving to Paris to devote herself to full-time writing.

Veronica’s historical biographies are complemented by art and travel writing as well as film, stage, and book translations and, most recently, fiction. Her work has been translated into many European languages.

Introduced to poetry in childhood by an inspiring teacher, Veronica has remained keenly interested in this rarest form of art in words. She hosts the Poem on Friday series on Instagram.

Veronica has lived in many different cities and now makes her home in Vienna with her husband, writer and broadcaster Philipp Blom.