Agnieszka Stachura is a Duke University graduate who has adopted North Carolina as her permanent home. Her work has appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal, Damselfly Press, The Broken Plate, Prime Number, Still Point Arts Quarterly, Minerva Rising, Prick of the Spindle, Swink, Southern Women’s Review, Passages North and The Sun, among other publications.
Personal Essay
- “Game Animals of a Lesser God” Draft Horse: A Journal of Work and No Work
- “Babcia” Fifth Wednesday Journal
- “Foundation” Still Point Arts Quarterly
- “A Temporary Life” The Sun
- “Tesknota” Fifth Wednesday Journal
- “Anlage” Toasted Cheese Magazine
- “An Open Letter to Tim O’Brien” Shelflife Magazine
- “Mrs. Turchin” Ghoti Magazine
- “Dear John” Swink Magazine
- “Jitterbug” Funny Times
- “Just Visiting this Planet” Funny Times
- “Sto Lat” Second Place Winner, Tiny Lights Journal of Personal Narrative
Fiction
- “The Little Golden Book of PTSD” Prime Number Magazine
- “The Vacation Personality Quiz” Funny Times
- “Homecoming” AnakSastra.com
- “One Down” EspressoStories.com
- “Temporary Insanity” Untoward Magazine
- “Lucky Bamboo” Prick of the Spindle
- “Poster Child” Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine
- “First Corinthians” Staccato Fiction
- “In the Chute” The Dirty Napkin
- “Temptation” Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in Twenty-Five Words or Less
- “As Seen on TV” Foliate Oak Literary Magazine
- “Heritage” Passages North
Poetry
- “Eulogy” The Broken Plate
- “Hunger” Southern Women’s Review
- “Unappreciated Knitting” Minerva Rising
- “Rapunzel” Damselfly Press
Awards
- Duke University Masters’ in Liberal Studies Class of 2012 student commencement speaker
- Top Twenty-five Finalist, January 2011 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award, for “The Edge of the Known World”
- Finalist, 2010 River Styx Schlafly Beer MicroFiction Contest, for “As Seen on TV”
- Second Place, 2008 Tiny Lights Personal Essay Contest, for “Sto lat”
- Finalist, 2007 Tiny Lights Personal Essay Contest, for “White Christmas”