[8] Her poems and photographs appear in numerous journals and anthologies, including Clockwise Cat,[9] "Ekphrasis, Epiphany Magazine,"[10] The Lily Review,[11] Loch Raven Review,[12] Magnapoets, Quill and Parchment, Phantom Seed, poetic diversity,[13] Sage Trail, San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, The Original Van Gogh's Ear Anthology,[14] Poetry Super Highway,[15] The Scream Online,[16] The Houston Literary Review, and other venues.
[26] An article in the Cosmopolitan Review shows the unwitting dependence of the folk-dance movement in America on Stalinist aesthetics and ideology.
[41] A recent research interest is the immigration of Polish composers to America, discussed in a chapter in Anna Mazurkiewicz's East Central Europe in Exile, vol.
A recipient of fellowships/awards from McGill University, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, University of Southern California, Polish American Historical Association, and American Council of Learned Societies, Dr. Trochimczyk served as poet laureate of Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles, in 2010–2012,[45] and as the President of the Helena Modjeska Arts and Culture Club in Los Angeles in 2010–2012.
Among other activities, she presented the Modjeska Prizes to eminent Polish actors Jan Nowicki,[46] Barbara Krafftowna,[47] and Anna Dymna.
[49] She continued poetic activities in the local community as a member of the Planning Committee of the Village Poets of Sunland-Tujunga[50] as well as the owner of the Moonrise Press.
In 2013, she was nominated as Chair of the Culture Committee in the Polonia Advisory Board for the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles.