Polish(ed): Poland Rooted in Canadian Fiction is the only anthology of Polish-Canadian writing in Canada and includes many internationally acclaimed and award-winning Canadian writers. What is the literary and cultural benefit of a diaspora anthology? It presents work from a community, a family of writers. It represents a cultural contribution to Canadian literature. It makes it known where they come from personally and metaphorically, what inspires them. The contributors to Polish(ed) are all writers who share Polish-ness, in whatever ways they define it: as a part of their personal story, be it through similar experiences or influences; as a perspective on the world; as a sense of history and of who they are. The collection also features Canadian writers who have no Polish roots, but are interested in various aspects of Poland and Polish culture.

Kasia Jaronczyk is a cell biologist by training. She has published poems and short stories in Carousel, Room, The Prairie Journal, Carousel, Nashwaak Review, and in Postscripts to Darkness (an anthology of dark & horror fiction). Her stories have won first place at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival Fiction Contest in 2010 and second place in the GritLit festival in 2014. Her work was longlisted for the CBC Radio Literary Award 2010 and shortlisted for the Bristol Prize 2016. She is the co-editor of an anthology of Polish-Canadian short stories that will be published in 2017 by Guernica Editions.

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Małgorzata (Margaret) Nowaczyk came to Canada in 1981 as a teenager. Her books Poszukiwanie przodków and Rodzinne drzewo zdrowia were published in Poland. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Prairie Fire, Numero Cinq, and Geist.

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