That work ran the gamut in the fall of Communism, from covering the birth of Solidarity in Poland to Tito’s Yugoslavia and the “third way” to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Zalubowski returned to the U.S. and her native Northwest to help out with family. She freelanced for Newsweek and the Oregonian but turned her attention to her lifelong dream of literary writing. She studied with Tom Spanbauer’s Dangerous Writers in Portland, Oregon. Her work has appeared in the literary journal Alimentum, Bewildering Stories, VoiceCatcher, Bella Online, and e-Fiction.