After receiving a BFA in painting from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada, Hedwig Irene Gorski began an innovative career as an award-winning performance poet in the 1980s working as a writer/vocalist with East of Eden Band and producing literary audio projects for international radio distribution.

She co-founded and named Voltaires Basement in Austin, a venue to originate experimental performances and literary events that often traveled to larger stages. Her radio drama script, Thirteen Donuts, received a 2001 award form National Audio Theatre and was published in their annual scriptbook. The production was broadcast on KRVS-FM and simulcast on Louisianaradio.com in 2000 and featured during the UL Lafayette English departments Deep South Festival of Writers. She received a Louisiana Division of the Arts Audio Media fellowship in 2002.

Her 2001 doctorate degree culminated a process that helped her develop her teaching abilities, for which she received the Robert and Bernice Webb Award in graduate teaching, as well as moving her writing interests into screenwriting and fiction.