After completing her grammar school education in Prešov, Gabriela Futová studied journalism at the Faculty of Arts at the Comenius University in Bratislava (1989-1993). She then took up an administrative post. Since 2002 she has been a methodologist for work with children and young people at the P.O.Hviezdoslav Library in Prešov and head of a working group set up by the Slovak National Library in Martin concerned with work with children and young people. She lives in Prešov.