Barbara Polla is a Doctor of Medicine and former Research Director at INSERM. She is a writer (with some thirty published books) and poet, gallerist (Analix Forever for 35 years) and exhibition curator, associate editor (BSN Press, since 2024), essayist, politician (elected for twelve years, including four as a Member of Parliament in the Swiss National Parliament), columnist, and now a doctoral student in philosophy focusing on peace at ULB.

She enjoys creating cultural projects like SHARING PERAMA, poetic initiatives like her Poetry Nights, and everything that connects images and words. She cares deeply about care, as well as simplicity, curiosity, love for the world and its inhabitants, the pursuit of rigor, humor, and solitude. She is the mother of four daughters, now women. She loves life and co-authored with Véronique Caye A Manifesto for Existential Eroticism: Poeticizing Reality (2024, translated and published in Arabic in 2025).