Linda C. Wisniewski

Writer / author / memoir teacher

Rediscovering the Old Country My journey to peace with my Polish heritage. This story was published in the November 2010 issue of In the Fray, an online magazine that promotes global understanding. When I was growing up in a Polish neighborhood in upstate New York, I wasn’t so interested in the Old Country. My grandparents … Read more

The name on the paper was Regina Wrozkowna. She was the earliest ancestor in my family tree, researched by my cousin’s daughter who lives in Switzerland. That summer afternoon at a family reunion in upstate New York, the kitchen smelled of baked ziti, kielbasa, strong coffee and sugary cake frosting. I’d been out of touch … Read more

In Search of Regina

This afternoon, I printed out the manuscript of my novel about my ancestor, Regina Culisz. She lived in the 18th century in the Austrian Empire, in what is now Poland. I’m a memoir writer, but I know very little about this woman, so I’m going to have to tell her story as fiction. In other … Read more