Csilla Toldy was born in Budapest. She escaped from socialist Hungary as a teenager in 1981. Her short fiction and poetry appeared in literary magazines and anthologies and in book form in three books of poetry: Red Roots - Orange Sky (2013), The Emigrant Woman’s Tale (2015) and Vertical Montage (2018), as short fiction in Angel Fur and other stories (2019) and as a novel with the title Bed Table Door (2023), the winner of the Desmond Elliot Residency. Csilla creates film poems as a visual artist. Her award-winning work has been screened at international festivals.