Sofia NowakSofia Nowak writes from the borderlands of history and memory. Born into a family that carried stories across frontiers, she studies how maps shape lives and how small nations endure in the shadow of empires. Her work brings together diplomatic archies, ordinary diaries, and the quiet ingenuity of clandestine communities. Sofia's mission is to show readers that the first battles of any war are fought in ideas, rail timetables, and classrooms as much as in fields. A thread woven through her work is the Polish concept of the underground state: the stubborn belief that law, learning, and civic duty can survive beneath occupation. By pairing rigorous research with humane portraiture, she aims to recover agency for those written out by louder powers and to offer tools for reading the present through the lived grammar of the past. Read More Read Less