Stephanie Kraft holds a Ph.D. in English literature and for forty years worked as a reporter for the VALLEY ADVOCATE, a weekly newspaper in western Massachusetts. She first visited Poland in 1988 on assignment for the ADVOCATE. She has been translating Polish literature since 1999. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with her husband, a psychiatrist.
2015 Vol. 7 No. 3 — Fall / Features
In a 1988 newscast, Stephanie Kraft heard the hejnał played from the tower of the Mariacki Church and learned that Poles had been doing so all through the communist era. Intrigued by these determined and stubborn people, she chose Poland as her destination for a journalist junket. She has returned every year since.