ANNA FRAJLICH, an accomplished Polish émigré poet, is the author of 12 collections of poetry and the recipient of prestigious awards from the Kościelski Foundation of Switzerland and W&N Turzański Foundation of Toronto.

In their citation, the prize committee commended Frajlich’s work as one „of the most interesting phenomena om contemporary Polish poetry,“ one which „reveals deep truth about the existence of an idividual entangled in the tragic fate of contemporary civilization.“ The expanded second edition of her bilingual volume Between Dawn and Wind, translated and with an introduction by Regina Grol, was published in Fall 2006 by Host Publications.

Recently Frajlich published “Laboratorium” collection of prose miniatures, and collection of essays “Czesław Miłosz. Lekcje”. Anna Frajlich (aka Anna Frajlich-Zajac) received her MA from Warsaw University in the Polish literature, and her Ph.D. in the Slavic Department of the New York University in 1991. Her poetry, reviews, articles and essays have been published in various journals in Poland, the United States, and Europe.

Frajlich is a Sr. Lecturer at the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University in New York City, where she teaches Polish language and literature. In 2002 Anna Frajlich received The Knight Cross of the Order of Merit awarded by the President of the Polish Republic and in 2008 she received the Honorary title of the Ambassador of Szczecin, Poland.