I grew up hearing stories of my family's experiences during World War II. I hold a degree in comparative literature from Brown University. I have also worked in school libraries and taught writing to children and adults. I have worked at Woman’s Day magazine and was founding editor of Dolls magazine and cofounder of Reverie Publishing Company, which published books on dolls and toys for collectors and children. My work has appeared in American Girl magazine, The New York Times Book Review, and the Riverbank Review of Books for Young Readers, and I am a regular reviewer of children’s books and writer for Publishers Weekly magazine. Please visit my website learn more about my books.
Vincent Millay and Dollmakers and Their Stories: Women Who Changed the World of Play, all for young people. I am the author of numerous books, including Becoming Emily: The Life of Emily Dickinson, An Unlikely Ballerina, A Girl Called Vincent: The Life of Poet Edna St. In 2004 my article, “Hopeful Faces of Freedom,” was published in the Contra Costa Times.- Krystyna Mihulka I am a member of the California Writers Club. Later I continued to study memoir writing at Adult Education Pleasant Hill and California State University East Bay. I have lived here ever since under my married name, Christine Tomerson.Īlways interested in writing and painting, at the age of 53 I received an associate of arts degree with honors from Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California. In 1962 my family and I migrated to South Africa, and in 1969 to the United States, settling in the San Francisco Bay Area. Then I settled in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), where I married a young Polish World War II veteran. After being liberated from Communism I spent several years in refugee camps in Iran and Africa. In 1940 I was forcibly deported to a remote communal farm in Kazakhstan in the Soviet Union, where I struggled to survive as a political prisoner for nearly two years. I was born in 1930 in Lwὸw, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine).
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