Her Christian maternal grandparents – Wiktor Osiecki, a pianist and Maria Sztechman – survived World War II and lived in Saska Kępa.

In 1979 they moved to Cambridge, then back to Warsaw and then to Newton, where she graduated from the Buckingham Browne & Nichols school.

[1] In 1995 Agata Passent graduated with a major in German studies from Harvard University[1] and she returned to Poland.

The Nerds' Foundation), whose main purpose is to protect and popularise Agnieszka Osiecka's works.

In the years 2005–2006 Passent was connected with Radio PiN and since 2006 she is writing feuilletons for the magazine Twoje Dziecko (En.