Iva Hadj Moussa is a graduate in Psychology from Masaryk University in Brno. After her studies, she worked briefly as a psychologist. Later, she moved to Prague and changed her line of work; she now makes her living as a copywriter. She is the screenwriter of The World’s Smallest Elephant / Nejmenší slon na světě, a TV series for very young children. Her humorous novel A Šalina Named Desire / Šalina do stanice touha was published in 2020; it was followed a year later by A Demon from a Housing Estate / Démon ze sídliště. In 2022, her novel The Havíř House / Havířovina was published.