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Magdalena Olszanowski

Freelance contributor

Magdalena Olszanowski is a Polish-born writer, artist and professor in Montreal. She received her PhD in communication studies from Concordia University. Her work can be found in Esse, n+1 and Visual Communication Quarterly among others. She is working on a novel set in 1980s communist Poland.

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    First Person

    I spent years feeling like an outsider in Canada — until my children helped me see it as home

    For decades, Magdalena Olszanowski has seen herself as a Pole living in Canada, not a Canadian. That all changed when her Montreal-born children began questioning their identity, forcing Olszanowski to confront her own sense of belonging in Canada and to reconsider the cultural divide that had long shaped her perspective.
    Canada Montreal

    With a sky full of wildfire smoke, how do I give my children the carefree summer they deserve?

    When summer — the season of skinned knees, ice cream beards and bedtime under the stars — becomes a season of staying inside on high alert, our kids lose an important part of their childhood, writes Magdalena Olszanowski.
    Canada Montreal
    Indelible Ink

    Caring between the lines

    She rejects government directives about COVID-19, while I turn to science for guidance on how we can protect each other. All I can read is what’s between the lines.
    Canada Montreal