Ania Spyra grew up in a trilingual home in Polish Upper Silesia, studied in Stockholm and Iowa City, and now lives in Indianapolis. An Associate Professor of English at Butler University, she has published academic and creative nonfiction in, among others, 91stMeridian, Sargasso, World Literature Today, Studies in the Novel, Comparative Literature, Contemporary Literature and Critical Read. She is writing a memoir about the post-communist transition of 1980’s and 1990’s Poland, an essay from which is forthcoming in Colorado Review.