Career
Siedlecka is a lecturer at M. Wańkowicz College in Warsaw. In her biography entitled Czarny ptasior Joanna Siedlecka "contradicts the sanctioned version of Kosiński"s life under the German occupation, which has generally been assumed to be only thinly disguised in his classic first novel The Painted Bird." (from an essay: "Writers Who Lie" by HNN).