Patrycja Humienik, daughter of Polish immigrants, is a writer, performer, editor, and teaching artist. Patrycja is the author of We Contain Landscapes (Tin House, 2025), finalist for the 2026 Nossrat Yassini Prize and selected as a New York Public Library Best New Poetry Book. She has developed writing and movement workshops for Tin House, Arts+Literature Laboratory, Poets House, The Seventh Wave, Northwest Film Forum, Henry Art Gallery, Brooklyn Poets, and in prisons. Her written work can be found in The New Yorker, Gulf Coast, West Branch, Poetry Daily, Poetry Society of America, The Slowdown Show, and elsewhere.

Patrycja is currently working on arts education programming at the Chazen Museum of Art and developing site-specific workshops and performance projects at rivers around the country. Stay tuned to learn more about her developing project, Water as Method.

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Now Booking for 2026 & 2027!

Would you like to bring me to your campus / lit center / art museum / dance studio / festival / classroom? Now booking events, workshops, and readings, including events for my debut book, We Contain Landscapes, out with Tin House.

Do you want to work together 1 on 1? I love supporting other writers & artists in finishing books, digging deeper/experimenting on the page, or following through on creative projects. Reach out via my contact form below if you want to work together, and let me know what your needs/hopes are.

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As a trilingual writer, interdisciplinary performance artist, editor, and embodied facilitator, my offerings range from workshop design & facilitation, to writing/research, to providing editorial feedback, to directing performance projects. I have experience with place-based, site-specific, and ecologically-focused work.

I work between borders: of disciplines, language/body, art/activism/scholarship, conflict/transformation. I am committed to an abolitionist framework, and interested in collaborative efforts in re-imagining creative, just futures. Contact me about collaboration/ booking.