Mira Marcinów Mira Marcinów (Szczecinek, 1985) is a writer and assistant professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. For her academicwork on psychology, she was shortlisted for the Polityka Science Award (2019) andwon the Prime Minister's Award (2015). Queenless is her fiction debut. It won the2020 Polityka Passport Prize and was shortlisted for numerous prizes, including the2021 Nike Literary Award in Poland. Our edition, translated by Mira Marcinów, was shortlisted for the Society of Authors First Translation Prize 2025.