Zofia Bałdyga

Zofia Bałdyga (born 1987, Warsaw, Poland; currently based in Prague, Czech Republic) is a poet and translator. She writes in Polish and Czech, and has published five volumes of her own poetry in Polish to date: Passe-partout (2006), Współgłoski (2010), Kto kupi tak małe kraje (2017), Klimat kontynentalny (2021) and Nauka oddychania (2025). Her first Czech-language volume Poslední cestopisy (fra) was published in 2023. Bałdyga holds MA in South and West Slavic Studies from University of Warsaw. She mainly translates contemporary Czech and Slovak poetry into Polish, occasionally also Armenian poetry. She works as a social worker supporting migrants.

 

Photo by Jan M. Heller