[1] She attended high school in Zamość[2] and graduated from the University of Wroclaw in 1953.

[3] Her debut poetry collection was Gumowe klocki ("Blocks of rubber", 1957), but her second, W rytmie korzeni ("In the Rhythm of the Roots", 1963), is considered her breakthrough.

[4] Of her 1963 poem "Recipe for the Meat Course", translator Karen Kovacik writes that it "functions simultaneously as an ars poetica and an ironic riposte to those who believed a woman's place was in the kitchen" and "depict[s] housework or domestic life through motifs of violence and estrangement.

"[5] Her novel Postoje pamięci ("Stations of Memory", 1965) focuses on Mirka, the daughter of a teacher, growing up in a small village during World War II.

In his survey of Polish literature, Czesław Miłosz wrote that it was "One of the most authentic testimonies on the village".