About Brigid
The descendant of Polish immigrants, Brigid spent most of her childhood in a farming township in Central Illinois, population 500. After graduating from Dartmouth College, she arrived in Krakow in the summer of 1994 with no contacts, no knowledge of the language, and only a vague idea of Polish culture. She quickly fell in love with the place, learned Polish, and decided to live there for one year. Fifteen years later, Brigid is still a frequent visitor to Krakow. She has also worked, studied or volunteered in Italy, Germany, Russia, England and Ukraine. She is a graduate of the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and currently teaches at Whitney Young Magnet High School in the Chicago Public Schools. An award-winning short story writer, A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True is her first novel.
