Gdańsk-born and Massachusetts-raised, Magda has formerly taught third grade as well as an English language class for immigrants. Her writing has appeared in The Manifest Station, Vast Chasm Magazine, and The Sun, among others, and her essay titled “What They Don’t Tell You at Your Baby Shower” shortlisted for the spring 2022 Sonora Review Rage Essay Contest.

Magda’s memoir-in-essays, THIS PLACE WHERE YOU ARE, which explores what it means to move through the world at the intersection of being a woman and an immigrant, is forthcoming from Betty Books (an imprint of WTAW Press).