Author Bio
Zuzanna Fimińska is a writer and editor whose work examines what it means to be human and how we're shaped and fractured by where we live, what we look like, how we sound, and whom we love.
Zuzanna has worked for a range of publications, including Polish Express, Time out (Amsterdam), Lymphoma Matters, Heart Matters, and Research Outreach. Her original non-fiction has appeared in The Coil Magazine, Drunk Monkeys, theSame, and Mslexia, among others. Her short stories and novel excerpts have been featured in Other Stories, Examined Life, Hospital Drive, Prick of a Spindle, and Digging Through the Fat. Her first attempt at a novel was longlisted in the 2012 Mslexia competition. Her latest attempt at a novel is under submission.
Zuzanna has been working as an English-language editor with senior scientists from South-East Asia, helping develop research manuscripts for publication in high-impact Anglophone journals. Working in a global environment, and puzzled by the 2016 political shifts, she founded Project Neighbours: A Series of Personal Interviews About Global Issues, which examined questions of race, class, and belonging.
Ten years later, the Project continues to foster a deeper understanding of global issues by sharing diverse personal stories, inspiring empathy and encouraging collective action towards a more equitable world for everyone.
Zuzanna started writing in 2002 by founding a school newspaper, which she made profitable already in the first year of operation. She used the funds to produce a cabaret-style comedy night at the Teacher of the Year Award ceremony, for which she commissioned music and wrote short sketches.
She then joined a city-wide youth magazine Przeciag as an associate, working her way through the ranks of contributor and staff writer to Editor-in-Chief. In this role, she supported press coverage at a the 2007 National Youth Theatre Festival, writing play reviews and interviewing practitioners, which sparked her love of musical theatre.
In 2006, she produced an adaptation of Bob Fosse’s Chicago: The Musical. Completed alongside her school work, the project involved a team of fifty people, including young actors and musicians, took two years of development, and six months of rehearsals, before completing a four-week run. The profits were donated to a charity dedicated to maternal and infant health. It's been more than 20 years but it was a formative experience, and she hopes to turn Project Neighbours into a musical soon.
