Piotr Śliwiński

(born 1962) – literary critic and historian, professor, head of the Department of Poetry and Literary Criticism at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Author and co-author of several books (the latest was Horror poeticus. Szkice, notatki, 2012). Originator and editor of roughly ten books devoted to contemporary literature, including a series of studies on poets – from Krystyna Miłobędzka (2007) to Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki (2012). Curator of the Poets’ Poznań Festival (since 2002), member of juries (including the Gdynia Literary Award and the Silesius Poetry Award), regular contributor to Tygodnik Powszechny weekly.

fot. M. Kaczyński, Centrum Kultury Zamek