Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm, Ph.D., born (April 15, 1949) and educated in Poland, began her writing career as an assistant to Melchior Wankowicz, a prominent Polish writer. Since April 1990, she has lived permanently in the United States. She is recipient of the Delaware Division of the Arts award in the Literature-Creative Nonfiction discipline, Fulbright Scholar (2006-2007). Ziolkowska-Boehm resides in Wilmington, Delaware, she is married to Norman Boehm and has one son Thomas Tomczyk (managing editor Bay Islands Voice, author of "Roatan Magic: Hidden Jewel of the Western Caribbean". Ziolkowska-Boehm received a scholarship from the Oxford Language Center (Oxford, England, the Ontario Ministry of Culture in Toronto, the Canadian Polish Research Institute, the A. Mickiewicz Foundation in Toronto, the Institute of International Education (Fulbright, Washington, DC), the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York. Recipient Kontrasty award, Zloty Exlibris award Ksiaznica Pomorska. Ziolkowska-Boehm’s book „Kaja od Radoslawa, czyli historia Hubalowego Krzyza” (Kaia Heroine of the 1944 Warsaw Rising was awarded as the best book of 2006 year by the London Union of Polish Writers Abroad. Her book “Otwarta rana Ameryki” (America's Open Wound) is about the current outlook of Native Americans. Ziolkowska-Boehm’s great uncle, Korczak Ziolkowski, the sculptor of Crazy Horse in the Black Hills of South Dakota was her inspiration for that book. The English version was published in the US under the title "Open Wounds a Native American Heritage" (Nemsi, 2009). Professor Bruce E. Johansen, University of Nebraska says:
“Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm takes us across the United States, visiting Indian Country, with insight and compassion, raising many issues along the way with the eye of a traveler from overseas (the book first appeared in Poland). Few people in this country know that the first craftsmen at Jamestown were from Poland, or that the family of Polish ancestry (relatives of hers) are carving a huge memorial to Crazy Horse in South Dakota. The book includes a number of wide-ranging interviews with people who are well known in Indian Country. This book provides fascinating reading from fresh perspectives. The interview with Rod Trahan is one of the most enlightening slices of reservation reality I have read in a long time”. ( http://www.nemsi-books.com/PubCompany/?p=131#comments)
Her book “Podroze z moja kotka” (Travels with my Cat) is on the publisher’s bestseller list in Poland. In the USA it was published by the Purdue University Press (2010) under the title "On the Road with Suzy From Cat to Companion".
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