Vadkerti-Gavorníková was born in 1932 in Modra. She attended the gymnasia in Skalica and Bratislava where she graduated in 1951. After her high-school graduation, she first worked as a teacher at
a secondary school for girls, then at an elementary school in Bratislava. From 1978 to 1987, she worked as an editor and deputy chief editor for the literary magazine Revue svetovej literatúry. Vadkerti-Gavorníková died in 1999 in Bratislava.