About the Author

Hedwig Gorski is an artist poet and writer who evolved her literary projects from an education and practice in the visual arts. Her strong ties with Slavic writers such as Gombrowicz and Mayakovsky underscore her Polish American heritage. The poet-dramatist's major influences come from the avant-garde, experimental, and postmodern visual artists and writers. She considers herself a conceptual literary artist who believes any medium or style, scholarly, creative, or mundane, can become art. She has been a Fulbright Fellow and a Louisiana Media Arts Fellow as well as having received awards for poetry and drama with a career as the innovator of performance poetry in the 1980s. She published many books of poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction as well as producing audio recordings of poetry for radio broadcasts. She received a Ph.D. in Creative Writing at the age of 51.