The president of Aquila Polonica Publishing, an award-winning independent publisher based in Los Angeles, which specializes in publishing the Polish World War II experience in English. The company is a member of both the Association of American Publishers and the Independent Book Publishers Association. All its books to date have won one or more awards. Its books have garnered favorable reviews from major media such as The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Republic and Publishers Weekly. They’ve been chosen as Selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club, History Book Club and Military Book Club; audio rights have been acquired by Audible.com and Brilliance. Translation rights for various titles have been acquired by foreign publishers in a number of countries.
Ms. Tegnazian is a graduate of Brown University (A.B. magna cum laude, Applied Mathematics) and Yale Law School. She practiced law in Los Angeles for twelve years, specializing in complex transactions of motion picture financing, both U.S. and international, before founding Aquila Polonica. She has written about Poland in World War II for the Wall Street Journal Europe and the Warsaw Business Journal, she's been interviewed on national television, and has presented numerous live programs in a wide range of venues, including museums and libraries, university courses, Polish Consulates and Embassies. She has been honored with many awards for her work, including the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit by order of the Polish president.