Julia Fiedorczuk

Julia Fiedorczuk (she/her), born February 23, 1975, in Warsaw, Poland, is a poet, prose writer, translator, and literary critic. Much of Fiedorczuk’s work can be considered ecopoetics.

Fiedorczuk made her literary debut with the poetry collection Listopad nad Narwią (approximately translated “November on the Narew”; Biuro Literackie Port Legnica, 2000), which received an award from the Polish Society of Book Publishers (PTWK). Subsequent collections include Psalmy (“Psalms”; Fundacja na rzecz Kultury i Edukacji im. Tymoteusza Karpowicza, 2017), winner of the 2018 Wisława Szymborska Prize; tuż-tuż (approximately translated “Almost There”; Biuro Literackie, 2012); Tlen (“Oxygen”: Biuro Literackie, 2009); Planeta rzeczy zagubionych (approximately translated “Planet of Lost Things”; Biuro Literackie, 2006); and Bio (Biuro Literackie, 2004), winner of the Austrian Hubert Burda Award in 2005. Fiedorczuk’s work has been translated into more than 20 languages, including the volumes Oxygen (Zephyr Press, 2017) and Psalms (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023), both translated into English by Bill Johnston.

Fiedorczuk’s short story collections include Poranek Marii i inne opowiadania (approximately translated “Maria’s Morning and Other Stories”; Biuro Literackie, 2010) and Bliskie kraje (approximately translated “Close Countries”; Marginesy, 2016). Her novels include Nieważkość (approximately translated “Weightlessness”; Marginesy, 2015), which was nominated for a Nike Literary Award, and Biała Ofelia (approximately translated “White Ophelia”; Biuro Literackie, 2011).

As a translator, Fiedorczuk has brought notable works by John Ashbery, Wallace Stevens, Forrest Gander, and Laurie Anderson into Polish. Her academic contributions include “Cyborg w ogrodzie: wprowadzenie do ekokrytyki” (approximately translated “The Cyborg in the Garden: An Introduction to Ecocriticism”; Wydawnictwo Naukowe Katedra, 2015) and “Ecopoetics: An Ecological Defence of Poetry” (Instituto de Estudios Ibéricos e Iberoamericanos de la Universidad de Varsovia, 2015), coauthored with Gerardo Beltrán. Having earned a PhD in humanities, she teaches American literature, literary theory, and English at the University of Warsaw, where she cofounded the Environmental Studies Center.