Seasonal Plots (II)

Małgorzata Lebda is a Polish poet, fiction writer, mountaineer, ultramarathon runner, and photographer. She is the author of seven poetry collections, including the award-winning volumes Queen Cells and Dreams of the Uckermärkers. Her volume Mer de Glace, from which these poems come, received the prestigious Wisława Szymborska Award. In 2023 she published her prose debut, Voracious, which won the Empik Discovery Award and the Wielkopolska Readers’ Choice Award (the literary award of Greater Poland). The novel’s translation rights were sold to numerous countries shortly after its release, and work on a film adaptation is underway. Lebda holds a PhD in literary theory and audiovisual arts and teaches in the creative writing department at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Her work has been translated into numerous languages, including Czech, Danish, English, Italian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. She lives in a small town in the Beskid Mountains, where she grew up.

Mira Rosenthal is an American poet and translator of Polish-language writers such as Tomasz Różycki, Małgorzata Lebda, and Krystyna Dąbrowska. Her work has been nominated twice for the Griffin Poetry Prize as well as for the Derek Walcott Prize, the National Translation Award, and the Oxford–Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Her translation of Różycki’s To the Letter won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and the Found in Translation Award for the best book translation from Polish into English in 2024. She is the author of Territorial, a Pitt Poetry Series selection and finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year award, and The Local World, winner of the Wick Poetry Prize. Her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, a Northern California Book Award, and residencies at Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and the Jan Michalski Foundation.