Tadeusz Dąbrowski (b. 1979) Poet, essayist, critic. Editor-in-chief of the literary bimonthly Topos. He has been published in The New Yorker, Paris Review, Boston Review, Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, Agni, American Poetry Review, among others. Recipient of stipends awarded by Yaddo (2015), the Omi International Arts Center (NY, 2013), and the Vermont Studio Center (2011). Winner of numerous awards, among others, the Kościelski Prize (2009), the Hubert Burda Prize (2008) and, from Tadeusz Różewicz, the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Culture (2006). He has been nominated for the NIKE Award (2010). His work has been translated into 30 languages. Author of ten volumes of poetry in his native Polish, from which the most recent are PUK (2026), Scrabble (2020), To jest fajka (2022) [This is a pipe] and PUK (2026), and a dozen in translation. He has also published a novel, Bezbronna kreska (2016) [Defenseless line], set in New York City, and a collection of essays on poetry, entitled In Metaphor (2024). Three of his collections, Black Square, POSTS and The Scent of Man have been published in English. He lives in Gdańsk on the Baltic coast of Poland.
