Justyna Bargielska was born in 1977. She has published three volumes of poetry and a collection of prose. She received the 2001 Rainer Maria Rilke poetry award, the 2011 Gdynia Literary Prize for her prose debut, Stillbirthlets, and the 2010 Gdynia Literary Prize for her poetry collection Two Fiats. Stillbirthlets was shortlisted for the Nike Award.