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.