Małgorzata Lebda Author

Małgorzata Lebda is a Polish poet, fiction writer, mountaineer, ultramarathon runner and photographer. She is the author of six poetry collections, including the award-winning volumes Queen Cells and Dreams of the Uckermärkers. Her latest collection, Mer de Glace, received the prestigious Wislawa Szymborska Prize. In 2023, she published her prose debut, Voracious, which won the 'Empik Discovery' Award and the Literary Award of Greater Poland. Voracious has since been translated into English by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Linden Press, 2025). Lebda holds a PhD in Literary Theory and Audiovisual Arts and teaches in the creative writing department at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Her work has been translated into numerous languages, including English, Spanish, Czech, Italian, Ukrainian, and Danish. She lives in a small town in the Beskid mountains, where she grew up.