Piotr Florczyk is the author of the collection East & West (Lost Horse Press, 2016), the chapbook Barefoot (Eyewear Publishing, 2015), and Los Angeles Sketchbook (Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2015), a collection of personal essays. Born in Kraków, Poland, and now living and teaching in Los Angeles, he has translated six volumes by prominent Polish poets. His poems, translations, essays and reviews have appeared in many journals, including The American Scholar, Boston Review, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry International, Slate, The Southern Review, and the London Times Literary Supplement. Florczyk is one of the founders of Calypso Editions, a cooperative press, and is translation editor of The Los Angeles Review.