Sean Gasper Bye is a trans­la­tor of Pol­ish lit­er­a­ture. He is a win­ner of the EBRD Lit­er­ary Prize and the Asymp­tote Close Approx­i­ma­tions Prize, was short­list­ed for the War­wick Women in Trans­la­tion Prize and longlist­ed for the Nation­al Trans­la­tion Award. He was for­mer­ly trans­la­tor-in-res­i­dence at Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty, a Nation­al Endow­ment for the Arts trans­la­tion fel­low, and Lit­er­a­ture and Human­i­ties Cura­tor at the Pol­ish Cul­tur­al Insti­tute New York.