Krysia by Krystyna Mihulka6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() 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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