Tomasz Marek Sobieraj is a poet, short story writer, essayist, art- and-literary critic, fine art and social documentary photographer. He was educated at Łódź University (geography, hydrology) and Lisbon University (statistics). Since 2000, he has published both literary-and- photographic works in various arts and letters journals in Poland and abroad. He received a fellowship from The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. His poems have been translated into English, Russian, Spanish, Danish, Kurdish, Italian, Korean and Ukrainian. Sobieraj's photographs have been widely exhibited and in 2013, he was nominated for the 2014 Prix Pictet—The Global Award in Photography and Sustainability. Sobieraj's last book of poems, Dwoje na wzgórzu (The Two on the Hill) was published in 2018; in 2019 Cross-Cultural Communications published an English- Polish selection of his poems, FOURTEEN MINUTES. Tomasz Marek Sobieraj is the founder and editor-in-chief of Krytyka Literacka—the only independent Polish arts-and-letters magazine.