Krystyna Dąbrowska

Krystyna Dąbrowska (b. 1979) is a poet, essayist and translator. She’s the author of five poetry collections: Biuro podróży (Travel Agency, 2006), Białe krzesła (White Chairs, 2012), Czas i przesłona (Time and Aperture, 2014), Ścieżki dźwiękowe (Soundtracks, 2018) and Miasto z indu (City of Indium, 2022). In 2013, she won two of the most prestigious Polish literary prizes: the Wisława Szymborska Award and the Kościelski Award, and, in 2019, the Literary Award of the Capital City of Warsaw. Her poems have been translated into fifteen languages. They appear regularly in literary magazines in Poland and abroad, including Poetry, Harper’s Magazine, Ploughshares, Threepenny Review, Southern Review, and Modern Poetry in Translation. Her first collection in English, Tideline, translated by Karen Kovacik, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, and Mira Rosenthal, appeared in 2022 from Zephyr Press. She lives and works in Warsaw.