Born in Poland in 1962 and living in Copenhagen since 1985, GRZEGORZ WRÓBLEWSKI is one of Poland’s major contemporary writers. Marjorie Perloff describes him as “the true poetic chronicler of our 21st century diaspora in all its absurdities and anxieties.” Wróblewski has published over a dozen volumes of poetry, prose, and drama. As a visual artist, he has exhibited paintings in galleries in Denmark, Germany, England, and Poland. English translations of his poetry
include A Marzipan Factory (Otoliths, 2010), Kopenhaga (Zephyr Press, 2013), Let’s Go Back to the Mainland (Červená Barva Press, 2014), and Zero Visibility (Phoneme Media, 2017).

In addition to having translated two books of Grzegorz Wróblewski’s poetry, PIOTR GWIAZDA is the author of three books of poems: Aspects of Strangers (Moria Books, 2016), Messages (Pond Road Press, 2012), and Gagarin Street (Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 2005). He has also published two critical studies, US Poetry in the Age of Empire, 1979-2012 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and James Merrill and W.H. Auden (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). He is a Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.