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Krysia Jopek earned her Bachelor's Degree and Master's Degree in English from the University of Connecticut, her Master's of Philosophy in Poetics and Twentieth-Century American Poetry from the City University of New York Graduate Center, and a Master's of Fine Arts in Literary Fiction from Albertus Magnus.Her father's family survived deportation from Poland to Siberia by Stalin in 1940 and remained Displaced Persons until 1952, which is the subject of her novel, MAPS AND SHADOWS (Aquila Polonica, 2010), recipient of a Silver Benjamin Franklin Award in Historical Fiction. She is also the maternal granddaughter of Polish immigrants.Her poems have appeared in BlazeVox, Redactions, The Wallace Stevens Journal, and Columbia Poetry Review, among other journals. In 2017 she founded Diaphanous Micro, an e- journal of literary and visual art. She currently resides in Connecticut.
"""Sculptured memories and reflections tantalize in a spectral ballet like wisps of smoke; the analytical reflection inside such undercurrents is delicious work for the reader. Complexity and diversity of conscious life can be imagined as generously flashing before the eyes-as in a last, desperately drawn out, critical moment."" --Miguel Escobar ""In the dance, what is implicate unfolds only to surrender once more to the whole. DIRGE moves, lives at the difficult, intimate cusp of knowing, which is also the cusp of being. Embodied, distilled, [un]veiled, spent, its insights evanesce and yet, like all profundity, linger."" --Sharon Lattig ""Earth as detritus, beckons language of its turmoil . . . DIRGE is a swept windstorm among the assemblages of our times, an unfurling rhizome for survival."" --Edwin Torres ""Jopek's words will have you gripped in a sensation to host your own shadow in the beauty of your own brokenness."" --Sheikha A ""Is metaphysical hopscotch a stage for modern ballet? condensed, relational, generative as fructifying? so full of life and kindness are these ballets, it's easy to forget they're dirges..."" --Chris Stroffolino"
