Patrycja Humienik, daughter of Polish immigrants, is a writer, editor and performance artist. She has developed writing and movement workshops for the Henry Art Gallery, Arts+Literature Laboratory, Northwest Film Forum, in prisons and elsewhere. An MFA candidate at UW-Madison, she serves as events director for The Seventh Wave, where she is also an editor for the Community Anthologies project. Patrycja grew up in Evanston, Illinois, and lives in Madison, Wisconsin.