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. In this case, they are all writers who share Polish-ness, in whatever ways we define it, as a part of their personal story, be it through similar experiences, influences, and perspective on the world, a sense of history and of who they are. And also, through interest in the Polish diaspora, writers who have no Polish roots.

Kasia Jaronczyk immigrated to Canada in her teens, in 1992. She is a microbiologist by training. Her writing was published in Bristol Prize Anthology 2016, Room, Carousel, Nashwaak Review, Prairie Journal, Room, and Postscripts to Darkness. Her short story collection Lemons was published by Mansfield Press in 2017.

Malgorzata (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.