Piotr Florczyk’s latest books are a collection of poems, East & West (Lost Horse Press), a volume of brief essays, Los Angeles Sketchbook (Spuyten Duyvil), and a new translation of Anna Świrszczyńska's Building the Barricade, with an introduction by Eavan Boland (Tavern Books). He is a Ph.D. student in the Literature and Creative Writing Program at the University of Southern California.