Tadeusz Dąbrowski

Tadeusz Dąbrowski (b. 1979) Poet, essayist, critic. Editor-in-chief of the literary bimonthlyTopos. He has been published in The New Yorker, Paris Review, Boston Review, ThreepennyReview, Ploughshares, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and Sinn undForm, among others. Recipient of stipends awarded by Literaturhaus Zürich (2016), Yaddo(2015), the Omi International Arts Center (2013), the Vermont Studio Center (2011), andLiterarisches Colloquium Berlin (2010, 2006). Winner of numerous awards, among others, theKościelski Prize (2009), the Hubert Burda Prize (2008) and, from Tadeusz Różewicz, the Prize ofthe 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 nativePolish, from which the most recent are Scrabble (2020) and To jest fajka (2022) [This is a pipe],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 InMetaphor (2024). Three of his collections, The Scent of Man (2025), POSTS (2017), and BlackSquare, have been published in English by Zephyr Press. German translations of his poetry haveappeared in the volumes Schwarzes Quadrat auf schwarzem Grund (2010), Die Bäume spielen(2014), and Wenn die Welt schläft (2022). He lives in Gdańsk on the Baltic coast of Poland.