Aga­ta Tuszyn­s­ka was born in War­saw in 1957 and grad­u­at­ed from the Acad­e­my of Dra­ma and The­atri­cal Arts in War­saw. She is the author of six col­lec­tions of inter­na­tion­al­ly trans­lat­ed poet­ry and biogra­phies of Isaac Bashe­vis Singer and Vera Gran. She is the recip­i­ent of the Pol­ish PEN Club Ksaw­ery Pruszyn­s­ki Prize and a grant from the Ful­bright Foun­da­tion. She lives in Toron­to, War­saw, and Paris.