Karolina Zapal

Karolina Zapal is a poet, prose writer, translator, and author of two books: Notes for Mid-Birth (Inside the Castle) and Polalka (Spuyten Duyvil). She grew up in Poland and often meditates on the Polish language and culture in her work. Her writing has appeared in Adi Magazine, the Rumpus, the Seventh Wave, and others. Her co-translations of Halina Poświatowska’s poetry into English have been published in Circumference, FENCE, the Massachusetts Review, and others and won table//FEAST journal’s inaugural translation prize. A graduate of Naropa University’s MFA in Writing & Poetics, she works at the Mass Center for the Book.