Joanna Lech

Available for sale from 4 June! Drapieżcy chmur (Cloud predators)

W.A.B.

2025

The house on the hill, which is inhabited by old furniture, paintings and cats, and quiet ghosts sleep in the corner of the room. There's Grandma Shelby, who didn't run away with the circus, Great-Grandma Goat and the ever-satisfied Grandpa, there's Mother, who colors the streets, and Father at war with the foxes. There are windows with a sweeping view of the abyss, and the lost lives of four generations, marked by similar traumas, are reflected in their panes. Only the talented Leo has a chance to escape the eternal circle of failure, if only he could finish something. If only he wasn't the curse of Fox Hill. If he weren't a dreamy, sad boy with dreamy eyes who gets lost in the grain.

Novels

Poetry

About

Joanna Lech, born 1984 in Rzeszow, Poland. She made her debut as a writer with the novel "Tricks" (Nisza, 2017), nominated for the Nike Literary Award and the Gdynia Literary Award. She has also published the novel "Cocoon" (W.A.B., 2019) and "Cloud Predators" (W.A.B., 2025). She is the editor of the anthology of poems "I crave dark love again" (W.A.B., 2018). Author of poetry volumes: "Collapse" (nominated for the Silesius Poetry Prize), "Relapses" (nominated for the Nike Literary Award), "Trans", "Songs of the Pikiniers", "Nocturnal and foul". Winner of many literary competitions, including the main prizes in the R. M. Rilke, Jacek Bierezin and PTWK competitions. She has received scholarships from, among others, the City of Krakow, the Grazella Foundation, the Ventspils Writers House, the Once Upon a Deadline project, the Visegrad Literary Residencies, the Czech Literary Center and UNESCO Prague. She lives in Krakow.