Piotr Gwiazda was born in Poland and moved to the United States at the age of eighteen. He is the author of three books of poetry, Aspects of Strangers (Moria Books, 2015), Messages: Poems & Interview (Pond Road Press, 2012), and Gagarin Street (Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 2005). He has also published two critical studies, U.S. Poetry in the Age of Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and James Merrill and W.H. Auden (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), and three volumes of translation from Polish, Dear Beloved Humans (Diálogos Books, 2023), Zero Visibility (Phoneme Media/Deep Vellum, 2017), and Kopenhaga (Zephyr Press, 2013) by Grzegorz Wróblewski. Gwiazda is a Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.