Marta Podgórnik

1979, Poland

Marta Podgórnik (born 1979). Polish poet, literary critic, editor, winner of the Bierezin Literary Prize (1996), winner of the Ministry of Culture scholarship, nominated for “Polityka Passport “ (2001). Participated in the Polish-German Translation Workshops in Krakow. Her poems have been translated and published in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Britain, USA, Italy and Ukraine. Associated with the publisher Biuro Literackie, where she writes regular on-line columns and is responsible for the publication of poetry débuts. She lives in Gliwice.