The Feminist Press’s Lauren Hook sends a dispatch from Kraków’s annual Conrad Festival, reflecting particularly on the inspiring women writers she met there.

Read ‘Building Bridges: The Conrad Festival in Kraków’ here.

Lauren Rosemary Hook is the assistant editor and foreign rights manager at the Feminist Press. A recent arrival in New York, she spent the past several years teaching English in Brazil, Spain and the US. She graduated from the University of Georgia where she studied Spanish, Latin American Caribbean studies and international affairs.