Jerzy GregorekJerzy Gregorek earned an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. His poems and translations have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Ashville Poetry Review, Blueline, Forward, International Poetry Review, The Poetry Miscellany, ad other publications. His works, many that he collaborated with his wife, include Late Confession, In a Flash, Watemarks, and Her Miniature.. He was a guest editor and translator for a special edition of Shirim: A Jewish Poetry Journal: Polish Jewish Poets Between the Wars, the entire magazine was devoted to the writings of 11 Jewish poets who were murdered, committed suicide or who vanished during the Holocaust. He returned to Shirim to serve as a guest editor for an entire issue devoted to the work of Maurycy Szymel, who vanished without a trace in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1941. Jerzy's FAMILY TREE was the winner of Amelia magazine's Charles William Duke Longpoem Award in 1998. In a Flash was one of four finalists for the PEN USA West 2001 Literary Award. In 2002, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Jerzy a literature fellowship to support the translation from Polish into English of selected poems by Maurycy Szymel. The American Poetry Review accepted the translations of 14 poems by Szymel, which were published in the September/October 2003 issue. Jerzy and Aniela, his wife, live with their daughter, Natalie, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Read More Read Less