Martina Pilcerova was born on 14 March 1973 in Lučenec, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia).
Three years later, she earned her MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava.
While attending school Martina published short stories in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
[1] Martina's first paid art was for a comic series she did for the Lucenec Newsletter in 1991 and she began selling art to role-playing game and collectible card game companies in the United States and Europe in 1997 when she sold covers for the game Waste World.
Martina began publishing art with the Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering lines from Wizards of the Coast in the first decade of the 21st century.