Dominik Poleski (pen name), Tadeusz Chmielewski (real name) was born in Poland, in a small town, near the border with the former Soviet Union, and had lived there with his family for several years. As an inquisitive child and a teenager he witnessed firsthand life in a totalitarian communist state; the misery, poverty, despair, persecution and hopelessness. Little did he know at the time, that it all had a lasting effect, deeply entrenched in his psyche. In 1972 his parents left for Canada for a temporary visit, which turned out to be permanent. The family was separated and dispersed for the next few years, during which the author and his two brothers all lived in different parts of the country, traumatized, faced with severe hardships in a hostile world, where little made sense. The country was in the grips of totalitarian communist regime, under the banner of insane Marxist-Leninist ideology, with little deviation for a dose of reality. In the latter years he resided with his aunt in the provincial capital Lublin, where he graduated from Institute of Technology in Designed, Construction and Maintenance of Railways. In the late 70’s the brothers eventually joined their parents in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. In the early 1980’s the author attended the local Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), and graduated in Civil Engineering Technology. Several years later Dominik attended post-secondary school and graduated with a diploma in Creative Writing.