Renata is a trained linguist and speaks several languages. She negotiated industry contracts in Germany before immigrating to this country as a young woman.

Renata has always loved language, its nuance, and its richness of expression. She has written over 70 short stories, many of them autobiographical, and more than 1000 poems. She continues her writing, knowing how deeply poetry touches the hearts of those who are willing to feel its magic.

Renata invites her friends into her garden to recite poems to them to ease the challenges of the Covid isolation that many of us feel during these trying times. Poetry takes us into the unknown, she says, the unknown of poetic mystery. Rumi and Hafiz, the Persian poets, inspire her and have transformed her life.

Renata not only loves poetry but art. She makes collages, she paints rich colors like illuminated manuscripts on paper in a process that she herself developed. She has been a contributing artist to the Box Show at the Gallery Route One for the past ten years, creating altars to Buddha. Her photography of tulips in their last dance, as she calls it is captivating and inspiring.

“I notice the small things, the unusual,” she says, “and try to capture their fleeting moments in time.”

“I cannot imagine my life without poetry or art, and am so grateful that I am able to devote my time and inspiration freely to it at this time of my life.”