Piotr Florczyk is a poet and translator. With Been and Gone (Marick Press, 2009), he introduced the English-speaking audience to Julian Kornhauser (1946-), one of the foremost Polish poets of the Generation of '68. He is also the translator of a collection of poems by Anna Swir (1909-84), Building the Barricade and Other Poems (Calypso Editions, 2011). With BOA Editions, Piotr Florczyk has published The Folding Star and Other Poems by Jacek Guterow (2012), and most recently, The World Shared by Dariusz Sośnicki (2014). He holds an MFA from San Diego State University, and has taught at the University of Delaware, San Diego State University, Antioch University Los Angeles, and at University of California-Riverside. Piotr Florczyk lives in Los Angeles, California.