Born in 1964, Joanna Krakowska is an editor, publisher, translator, essayist and contemporary theatre historian. She is an associate professor at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and a deputy editor of the "Dialog" magazine. She is the author of the monograph "Mikołajska. Theatre and Communist Poland" (2011) and co-author of two books "Soc & Sex. Theatrical and Non-theatrical Diagnoses" (2009) and "Soc, Sex & History" (2014).