Michał Sobol was born in 1970. He graduated in philosophy and church history and worked in the monastery library for many years. He made his literary debut in his thirties, publishing seven volumes of poetry, for which he received the Gdynia Literary Award, the Zbigniew Herbert Foundation Award and was nominated for the Wisława Szymborska Poetry Award. Since 1998 he has been living at Zabierzów Bocheński on the edge of the Niepołomice Forest.
