Cosmopolitan Review's Contributors

Margaret Araneo is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in Theater at Brooklyn College where she also serves as the Interim Head of the MA Program in Theater History and Criticism. She was the Managing Editor of the journal Slavic and East European Performance from 2005 to 2010. Her research focuses on the intersection of biopolitics and performance during modernism and its relationship to cultures of disability. Winter 2011-2012 article: Starring Madame Modjeska: On Tour in Poland and America	Andrew J. Borkowski is the author of Copernicus Avenue, a cycle of short stories inspired by his youth in the post-war Polish community along Toronto’s Roncesvalles Avenue, published by Cormorant Books. Visit his website: www.andrewjborkowski.com Winter 2011-2012 article: Nowhere Places: Mining the Polish Experience Previous article: Why This Silence?
Justine Jablonska is the Press & Media / PR Advisor to the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington, D.C. She completed her Master's of Journalism at Northwestern's Medill in June 2010, and is a 2008 PitR alumna. Justine is a CR editor and its web & social media producer. Winter 2011-12 articles: Our Stories, Our Voices Polish Global Village Happy Hour Chatting with Dan Soles of Chicago’s WTTW Public Broadcast Station Previous CR articles: Children in Exile: Recollections of Children Deported to the Soviet Gulag A library, a garden, and a reunion: Warsaw in May The Arabian Horses of Poland: Once Again the Wellspring for the Greatest Arabian Horses in the World; Independent Poland's Baptism by Fire: The Battle of Warsaw, 1919-1920; "The Officer's Wife": Conversations with Director Piotr Uzarowicz; Not Your Grandma's Pierogi: A Guide to Polish Food in Chicago; Reporting from DC, This is Justine Jablonska; Peter Raina: Love, Politics, Betrayal; Recovering a Stolen Childhood; Barcelona in Detail; Notes from a Concert: Freedom '89; Horses and Bourbon and Hats, Oh My!; Rome By Self	Maureen Mroczek Morris is the Consular Assistant to the Polish Honorary Consul in San Francisco and is Treasurer of the San Francisco-Kraków Sister Cities Association & the Polish Club in San Francisco. Winter 2011-12 article: Manya, The Living History of Marie Skłodowska Curie Previous articles: Passage from England: A Memoir The Katyń Order - A Novel of WWII Reviewed
Piotr Piwowarczyk is a journalist and film producer who lives currently in Mexico. His latest project is a historical documentary dedicated to the story of Colonia Santa Rosa. He can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Winter 2011-12 article: Hacienda Santa Rosa: a Polish Refuge in Mexico	Educated at Stanford, Yale and Cornell, Magda Romanska is a Polish-born writer, translator and leading scholar of Polish Theatre. Her forthcoming theatre books include Theatre and Meaning: The Strange Case of Grotowski and Kantor (Anthem Press London, 2012) and the anthology Comedy: Theory and Criticism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). In 2010, she won the Gerald Kahan Scholar’s Prize from the American Society for Theatre Research. Most recently, she was awarded the 2011 Aquila Polonica Article Prize by the Polish Studies Association. She is a research associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center, and an assistant professor of Theatre Studies at Emerson College in Boston, MA. Winter 2011-12 article: Boguslaw Schaeffer: Poland’s Renaissance Man
Eva Stachniak’s newest novel “The Winter Palace” was published in January 2012 by Bantam (USA), Doubleday (Canada) and Transworld (UK). The Polish translation (Znak) is planned for February of 2012. Visit her website: www.evastachniak.com Winter 2011-12 article: Agnieszka Holland talks to Eva Stachniak at the Toronto International Film Festival Previous article: Agnieszka Holland’s “In Darkness” – A Promise Fulfilled	Irene Tomaszewski is a writer, contributing editor at CR, founding president of the Montreal-based Canadian Foundation for Polish Studies and program director of Poland in the Rockies. She is the author of "Inside a Gestapo Prison 1942-44: The Letters of Krystyna Wituska" and "Codename Żegota: The Most Dangerous Conspiracy in Occupied Europe," co-authored with Tecia Werbowski, published by Praeger in Spring 2010. In February of 2011 she received the Lech Wałęsa Media Award at the Polonaise Ball in Miami, Florida. Winter 2011-12 articles: Be Not Afraid The Winter Palace Iskra Previous articles: Stefan Norblin: An Artist Comes Home; The Labirynth: The Tesimony of Marian Kołodziej ; Scotland and Poland: for Auld Lang Syne; Polish Orphans of Tengeru: The Dramatic Story of Their Long Journey to Canada 1941-49; The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt: War Through a Woman’s Eyes, 1939-1940; Reminiscences: Father, Socks and "Figi"; Rome's Most Faithful Daughter: The Catholic Church and Independent Poland; The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom; Unravelling the Mysteries of the Kresy and Białowieża Forest; The Noble and Compassionate Heart the Maharaja Jam Saheb Digvijay Sinhi; Publishing the Greatest Story Never Told; Kids and the Polish Law; Katyn: A Crime Without Punishment; From the Snows of Siberia to the Snows of Kilimanjaro; PitR Alumni Take Center Stage in Chicago, Toronto and Montreal; Lost Between Worlds; Copernicus Street; Maps and Shadows; The Long Bridge; Katyn: Stalin's Massacre and the Triumph of Truth; The Polish Review; The Black Madonna of Derby; Great Reading from Ohio University Press; A History of Polish Americans REvisited; 2011: The Year of Marie Sklodowska-Curie; Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands; The Spy Who Dazzled Churchill; Poland in the Rockies 2010 – Victor Ashe, Alex Storozynski and more; Former US ambassador: Poles have a basic love of liberty; Conversation with... Joanna Czechowska
John Guzlowski, CR's poetry editor, is an award-winning poet and blogger extraordinaire. A retired professor of contemporary literature at Eastern Illinois University, Guzlowski has written extensively on Polish, Jewish and Polish American writing and poetry. His own poetry is inspired by his parents' years in German camps and the family's experience as post-war immigrants and deals with the universal themes of trauma, pain, memory, parent-child relations and love. Articles:   Chopin With Cherries Review Second Language Poetry To submit poetry to CR, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it	Our webmasters. The men without which CR wouldn't exist. Patient, consistent and dedicated, Antoni (left) and Jan Kowalczewski are the founders of hip & happenin' angeltear.com. In their own words: "Angeltear came from a concept that innovative online tools do not need to be graphically challenged. Our focus has always been on usability and accessibility, by providing intuitive tools and solutions that result in increased sales for our clients, as well as a more enjoyable experience for all users." A&J are 2006 PitR alumni. They have supported and sponsored CR from the moment it was born in our minds. Thank you!