2002 and 2006, Filipiak published a volume of poetry (Madame Intuita), a play (The Book of Em) based on the life of Maria Komornicka, a haunted figure of Polish modernism, and Absolutna Amnezja went through a third printing. Still excluded by the mainstream, the writer decided to stay in the U.S. In 2009, she received an MFA in fiction from Mills College in California, then returned to Poland upon accepting a position in the American Studies Department at Gdańsk University. Since 2010, Filipiak has been the president of Writers for Peace Foundation whose goals are supporting minority voices and maintaining a network of artists concerned with issues of marginalized groups. In the fall of 2010, Writers for Peace confronted SKM, the local commuter train, regarding the lack of accessibility. Filipiak specializes in the subject of exclusion, displacement, grief (and the lack of formulas for its public expression for gay people), documenting styles of radical resistance to social and cultural exclusion, irony and black humor, debt, war and privatization. Works Published Śmierć i spirala short stories Wrocław: A, 1992, Absolutna amnezja novel (1st edition Poznań: Obserwator, 1995, ; 2nd edition Warszawa: PIW, 1998, ; 3rd edition Warszawa: tCHu, 2006, ) Niebieska menażeria memoir (Warszawa: Sick!, 1997 Twórcze pisanie dla młodych panien essays on creative writing Warszawa: W.A.B, 1999, Madame Intuita poetry (1st edition Warszawa: Nowy Świat, 2002, ; 2nd edition, including trans. by Alessandro Amenta, Salerno: Heimat Edizioni Kultura obrażonych political; non-fiction (Warszawa: W.A.B, 2003, Alma novel (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2003, Księga Em play (Warszawa: tCHu, 2005, Magiczne oko. Opowiadania zebrane selected stories (Warszawa: W.A.B. 2006, , Obszary odmienności. Rzecz o Marii Komornickiej gender studies; modernism, non-fiction (Warszawa: tCHu, 2005, References External links Izabela Filipiak Homepage "Izabela Filipiak on Literature, Citizenship, and Emigration." University of Gdańsk alumni 21st-century Polish women writers Polish lesbian writers People from Gdynia 1961 births Living people International Writing Program alumni Lesbian academics