Born in Poland after the war to Holocaust survivors, Anita Lerek is a memorial candle for her culture and for all others under attack. The visual arts and jazz have been life-long markers. Some sample poetry publication credits include Offcourse Literary Journal, One Art Journal of Poetry, Silver Birch Press, Beltway Poetry, and MacQueen’s Quinterly. She was nominated for Best of the Net, 2022, and is co-founder of a women’s online poetry group, Change Artists. She lives with her archivist husband in Toronto, Canada. She is author of chapbook, Of History and Being (2019).