She wrote under a number of different pen names, including Božena, Damascena, Ľ. Šeršelínová, Ľ. Špirifangulínová, Ľudka and Ľudmila.

[1][2][3] The daughter of Karol Rizner, a teacher, she was born in the village of Bzince pod Javorinou.

Her uncle Ľudovít Rizner encouraged her to submit her first writing to newspapers for publication.

Podjavorinská had three contemporary women writers as mentors: Terézia Vansová, Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová and Božena Slančíková.

[2] She stayed in her home town until 1910, when she moved to Nové Mesto nad Váhom.