Julia Fiedorczuk is a Polish poet, fiction writer, translator and lecturer in American literature at Warsaw University. She has published five volumes of poetry, the most recent of which is just around the corner, as well as a collection of short stories, The Morning Mary and Other Stories, and a novel, White Ophelia. Her poems have been translated into many languages. She is the recipient of the PTWK Award for the best first book of the year and the Hubert Burda Prize. She has translated the work of many American poets, including Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery. She has also published a two-volume selection of writings by Laura (Riding) Jackson and, with Laurie Anderson, Language of the Future, a collection of Anderson's short narratives with the author's illustrations (Wroclaw, 2012). She has been part of an international literary project, Metropoetica: Women Writing Cities. In addition to academic papers, she has written articles on animal rights and is a regular contributor to the feminist magazine "Splinter". Her academic interests include 20th century American poetry, literary theory, ecocriticism and feminism.