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He is a translator of Polish literature into English. He focuses on contemporary fiction and reportage, and also works with historical texts, theater and video games. His translations have won the EBRD Literary Prize and the Asymptote Close Approximations Prize; and been shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, a National Jewish Book Award, the Sami Rohr Prize, and the National Translation Award. He has been a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow and Translator-in-Residence at Princeton University. He formerly served as the Interim Executive Director of the American Literary Translators Association and Literature and Humanities Curator at the Polish Cultural Institute New York. He serves on the staff of the American Literary Translators Association and formerly worked as Literature and Humanities Curator at the Polish Cultural Institute New York.

Translations

  • Moczarski, Kazimierz, Rozmowy z katem / Conversations With an Executioner. Duckworth Books, 2026.
  • Grynberg, Mikołaj, Poufne / Confidential. The New Press, 2025.
  • Michalska, Franceska, Upór życia. Biografia pośmiertna / Stubborn Life: Happiness and Hardship in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Poland. World Editions, 2024.
  • Łazarewicz, Cezary, Żeby nie było śladów / Did This Hand Kill?. Open Letter Books, 2024.
  • Grynberg, Mikołaj, Chciałbym przeprosić, ale nie ma kogo / I’d Like to Say Sorry But There’s No One to Say Sorry To. The New Press, 2022.
  • Kicińska, Magdalena, Pani Stefa / Pani Stefa and the Orphans: Out of the Shadow of Korczak. Vallentine Mitchell, 2021.
  • Ryziński, Remigiusz, Foucault w Warszawie / Foucault in Warsaw. Open Letter Books, 2021.
  • Szejnert, Małgorzata, Wyspa klucz / Ellis Island: A People’s History. Scribe, 2020.
  • Twardoch, Szczepan, Król / The King of Warsaw. Amazon Crossing, 2020.
  • Korczak, Janusz, Prawo dziecka do szacunku / A Child’s Right to Respect. Office of the Republic of Poland Ombudsman for Children, 2017.
  • Ostałowska, Lidia, Farby wodne / Watercolours. Zubaan Books, 2017.
  • Springer, Filip, Historia pewnego zniknięcia / History of a Disappearance. Restless Books, 2017.

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