PIOTR SIEMION

is a novelist, literary translator, and attorney. He received a PhD in humanities and a JD from Columbia University in New York. A Fulbright scholar, Siemion lived in the US and Canada from 1988 to 2000, where he translated works by William Butler Yeats, Tom Clancy, and Thomas Pynchon (for which he won the 1990 “Literature in the World” Award). He worked at Weil, Gotshal & Manges. A winner of several major literary awards in Poland, he currently resides in Warsaw.