Hi. My name is Magdalena Styś and here are a few cool things about me:
Hi. My name is Magdalena Styś and here are a few cool things about me:
I primarily write non-fiction and poetry. My work has appeared in Also Cool Magazine, the Amazine, and elsewhere; you can take a look at my portfolio in the writing tab. I was nominated to appear in the 2025 Best of the Net Anthology.
I've interned at ONLY POEMS as a Website Assistant and am currently serving as an Editor for Disobedient Magazine and a Poetry Editor for Moonday Mag. As for my own literary tastes: I love stuff that makes me feel good and stuff that makes me feel bad.
I love language and everything it does - how it affects the ways we write, talk, think and vote. I'm obsessed with semantics and philosophy of language and I have a three-dimensional system I use to decide whether I like a particular word.
I'm currently in the Honours BA Linguistics programme at the University of Amsterdam. (I'm also minoring in European Law, but that's relatively unrelated). My dream is working in academia and conducting socially conscious critical linguistics research.
Over the past few years, I've garnered a variety of more-or-less useful skills. I can manage websites, do graphic design for online and print, write promotional copy and JavaScript, organize events and bake a pretty good carrot cake. I feel the happiest and proudest of myself when I can use any of these skills for good.
For multiple years, I served in a variety of roles at Wave Learning Festival, an American 501(c)(3) student-led nonprofit aiming to provide free and accessible education for underprivileged students. Volunteering at Wave LF was a true bootcamp in jack-of-all-trade-ing: I wrote blog articles about study techniques, created social media content, taught courses on Internet anthropology and world poetry, trained volunteers, contacted schools worldwide to spread the word about our services and hopped on Zoom calls at 5am CET with potential partner organizations. Moreover, it showed me that I'm actually pretty good at getting the job done.
Some of my more recent work includes coordinating human rights-related events with AISA, teaching English to immigrants and refugees at Right2Education and volunteering for a gender-affirming clothing campaign at Spotlight. I would love to work on any project committed to social justice, particularly those related to accessible education, queer rights and immigrant & refugee rights.
Want to work together? Email me at magdalena.k.stys@gmail.com.