Dr. Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm is a recipient of numerous literary awards and scholarships including a fellowship in literature by the Delaware Division of Arts in 2006 and a Fulbright scholarship in 2006-2007. She is the author of many books published in her native Poland and also in the USA including: Open Wounds—a Native American Heritage, On the Road with Suzy: from Cat to Companion, and Kaia, Heroine of the 1944 Warsaw Rising. Coming soon: The Polish Experience through World War II: A Better Day Has Not Come, and Melchior Wankowicz: Poland’s Master of the Written Word.