Zofia Bałdyga (Czechia)

born 1987, Warsaw, Poland; currently based in Prague, Czech Republic) is a poet and translator. She writes in Polish and Czech, and has published four volumes of her own poetry in Polish to date: Passe-partout (2006), Współgłoski (2010), Kto kupi tak małe kraje (2017) and Klimat kontynentalny (2021). 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 a social worker in an NGO providing counseling to migrants.