Gosia Nealon

Gold Medal winner in the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) for Europe-Best Regional Fiction. Award winner in the Genre Short Story category in the 89th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition. Gosia's debut novel, The Last Sketch, was named one of the best New Historical Fiction books by BookAuthority. Books by Gosia: "Her Secret Resistance" aka "The Polish Girl" aka "The Last Sketch" "The Resistance Wife" aka "The Polish Wife" "Daughter of the Resistance" aka "The Polish Daughter" While Gosia Nealon is a proud New Yorker, she was born and raised in Poland. Her journey to the Big Apple revealed a wealth of cultural differences, but also the values that connect us all. Like the fierce desire to protect family, find love, and ultimately, discover who we are and why we’re here. Gosia’s award-winning short stories have always delved into life’s biggest questions, but it was the drama, sacrifice, and tragedy of WWII that led her to pen her debut novel. Growing up in Poland, Gosia heard many firsthand accounts of the war, told from a perspective rarely captured in mainstream literature. She was compelled to breathe life into Wanda and Finn, two young people falling in love in the midst of the most terrifying conflict of our time. When Gosia isn’t tapping away at her laptop, she’s often walking the streets of New York. With her husband and three young sons in tow, they search for the most succulent pierogi, transporting them back to the cobbled streets of her childhood.