Anna Maria Mickiewicz is a poet, writer, editor, translator, and publisher. Founder of the publishing house Literary Waves, Anna moved from Poland to California, and then to London. She is a member of the English Pen and Polish PEN Club. Her poetic works have appeared in the United States, UK, Australia, Canada, Poland, Mexico, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Salvador, India, Chile, and Peru. She has been honored with the Gloria Artis medal for Merit to Culture by the Polish Ministry of Culture, the Cross of Freedom and Solidarity, and The Joseph Conrad Literary Prize (USA).
In the 1980s, she co-edited the independent magazine Wywrotowiec (The Subversive) issued by the Inter-University Committee of Defence of Political Prisoners in Poland. She served as the chair of the California State Poetry Society Literary Award Jury, the Jury of the International Literary Award of K. M. Anthru in India, the Jury of the Joseph Conrad Award (USA), and the Chapter of the Garden of Poetry Medal (London). She belongs to several London poetry groups, including Enfield Poets, The Highgate Society’s Poetry Group, and Exiled Writers Ink. She cooperates with the American publishing house Dreeammy Little City (Orlando). With the British translator Noel Clark, she participated in the creation of the Eagle and Lion exhibition, which was presented during Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to Poland in March 1996. For many years she worked as a foreign correspondent for Polish press, describing cultural and literary events in Great Britain.
The poem by Anna Maria Mickiewicz A London Dream was published in the British anthology Through a Child’s Eyes: Poems from World War Two. The book was promoted during the Penzance Literary Festival in Cornwall. For years, she has published her works in literary magazines and anthologies such as Kritya, Exiled Writers Ink, Syndic Literary Journal, Litterateur RW, Madness Muss Press (USA), The Beach Hut (UK), The Creative Process (USA), The Fringe Poetry Magazine (USA), and Ink Sweat and Tears (UK). The English-language volume of London Manuscript has been published in Great Britain by Poetry Space. The second English-language volume of The Mystery of Time in the USA. She has published the Polish-Bulgarian volume Summer in Seaford. She also translates poetry, mostly contemporary British and American poets.
Her website is:
faleliterackie.com
Paperback: 68 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (September 9, 2024)