Patrycja Humienik, daughter of Polish immigrants, is a writer and performer based in Seattle, WA. A recent semi-finalist for the 92Y Discovery Prize, her poems are featured/forthcoming in BOAAT, Southeast Review, Passages North, Palette Poetry, Four Way Review, Sporklet, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. She serves as Events Director of The Seventh Wave. Her interviews include recipients of the Gloria Anzaldúa Chapbook prize, and the UW Public Lecture, “An Evening with Joy Harjo.” She is working on her first book, Anchor Baby.