Poets and Writers

Dr. Steven Ostrowski is a fiction writer and poet whose work is widely published in journals, magazines, anthologies, chapbooks and ezines. He teaches ENG 371 here at Central.

Robert Pawlowski is a poet of Polish decent. He recently published a collection of poems called Dreams Are Not in Season.

Leslie Pietrzyk's work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and she has won a number of writing awards, including Shenandoah's Jean Charpiot Goodheart Prize for Fiction.

Janine Pommy Vega was an accomplished American poet. At the age of sixteen, inspired by Jack Kerouac's On the Road, she traveled to Manhattan to become involved in the Beat scene there.

Christina Pacosz has been writing and publishing prose and poetry for nearly half a century and has several books of poetry, among them, Greatest Hits, 1975-2001 (2002). She lives with her husband in Kansas City.

Anne Rose Pellowski, Polish American educator and author, was born June 28, 1933, on the family farm in the Trempealeau County town of Arcadia, Wisconsin.

John Pijewski received an NEA fellowship in 1985. His book of poems, Dinner with Uncle Jozef, is available from Wesleyan University Press. He taught at Holy Cross College and lives in Maine.

Born in Port Jefferson Station, New York, one year after the beginning of the Summer of Love, John Popielaski attended SUNY-Stony Brook and American University.

Mark Pawlak is the former Director of Academic Support Programs at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where he teaches mathematics. He has been the recipient of two Massachusetts Artist Fellowship awards.

Piasecki is the author of several seminal books on business strategy, valuation, and corporate change. His books include Doing More with Less: The New Way to Wealth (2012) and Doing More with Teams: The New Way to Winning (2013).

Stephen Poleskie was an artist and writer. His artwork is in the collections of numerous museums, and his writings have been recognized in many magazines and reviews.

Jack Pulaski is the author of The St. Veronica Gig Stories. His stories have appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including The Ploughshares Reader and The Pushcart Prize.