Joanna Kosmalska graduated in English from the University of Łódź, having studied at University College Dublin in Ireland and Flensburg Universität in Germany. She worked as a teacher in Gymboree, St. Mary’s Boys National School and Abbey College in Dublin. In 2008-2009 she carried out research on teaching English to immigrant pupils in eighteen primary schools in Dublin greater area. The results of her research were partially published in Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis (2012) and laid the groundwork for an EU funded postgraduate teacher training programme which she ran at the University of Łódź (www.anglista.uni.lodz.pl). She is a translator, a founder of Open Boat translation society (www.openboat.pl), an editor of DeKadentzya literary journal, an author of articles on contemporary literature, and the initiator of the Polish Emigration Literature in Ireland and Great Britain since 2004 project.