J.B. Polk

Polish

First Language(s): Polish
Second Language(s): English, Spanish

Polish by birth, a citizen of the world by choice. First story short-listed for the Hennessy Awards, Ireland in 1996. She became a regular contributor to Women's Quality Fiction, Books Ireland and IncoGnito. She was also the co-founder of Virginia House Writers, Dublin, and helped establish the OKI Literary Awards. Her creative writing was interrupted as she moved to Latin America and started contributing to magazines and newspapers and then writing textbooks for Latin American Ministries of Education. Since she went back to writing fiction last year, 39 of her stories, flash fiction, and non-fiction have been accepted for publication in anthologies and magazines in Australia, UK, Germany, the USA, and Canada.