Mark Tardi is a writer and translator whose recent awards include a 2023 PEN/Heim Translation Grant and a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Translation fellowship. He is the author of three books, most recently, The Circus of Trust (Dalkey Archive Press, 2017), and his translations include Unsovereign by Kacper Bartczak (above/ground, 2024), The Squatters’ Gift by Robert Rybicki (Dalkey Archive Press, 2021) and Faith in Strangers by Katarzyna Szaulińska (Toad Press/Veliz Books, 2021). Recent writing and translations have appeared in Poetry, Conjunctions, Guernica, Interim, Cagibi, Tupelo Quarterly, Denver Quarterly, The Scores, Full Stop, and elsewhere, and in the edited volumes, Odmiany Łapania Tchu (Dom Literatury, 2022), New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confront the Holocaust (Vallentine Mitchell 2023), and The Experiment Will Not Be Bound (Unbound Edition Press, 2023). He is on faculty at the University of Łódź.