Ewa Marcinek is a Polish author who has lived and worked in Iceland since 2013. She is one of the founding authors of Ós Pressan, a non-profit initiative and a publishing house established to bring out and promote new authors and to create an inclusive writing community in Iceland. Ewa is the co-founder of Reykjavík Ensemble, an international theatre company, where she also works as a writer and project manager. Her writing has been featured in the company’s performances, plays, and video productions as well as in Icelandic journals, and exhibited during festivals and art shows in Iceland and abroad. She is the author of the collection of short stories and poems Polishing Iceland (Ísland pólerað) and one of the editors of the essay collection Writers Adrift, which Una útgáfuhús is publishing in spring 2023.
Events with Ewa Marcinek