As a young teenager, Wodnicki participated in the Polish Resistance during World War II.

After the war, Wodnicki studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he helped co-found and write for the bimonthly magazine Zebra.

He was one of the founding members of Cap à l'Est, a European poetry and music festival that takes place every year in Slovakia.

[2] Wodnicki served as a member of the editorial board of Austeria, a publishing house in Kraków.

Wodnicki lived in Kraków with his wife, Maria Ledkiewicz-Wodnicka, a sculptor who specialized in ceramic monuments.