Monika Szydlowska was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1983 and received an MA at the University of Fine Art in Poznan in 2011. Since 2013, she has lived in Edinburgh, where she conducts art workshops with disabled people. Her primary medium is painting. She started “Na Emigracji,” a series of reflections on everyday life and adventures after moving to another country, in October 2013, and published a selection in her first book, Do You Miss Your Country.