Piotr Florczyk is a poet, essayist, and translator. He was born and raised in Krakow, Poland, and moved to the United States at the age of sixteen.

In addition to his books, he has published poems, translations, essays, and reviews in many journals, including The American Scholar, Boston Review, Harvard Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The New Yorker, Notre Dame Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Pleiades, Poetry International, Slate, The Southern Review, Threepenny Review, Times Literary Supplement, West Branch, and World Literature Today. He is one of the founders of Calypso Editions, a cooperative press, and serves as Translation Editor for The Los Angeles Review.

After earning his M.F.A. from San Diego State University in 2006, he taught poetry and literature undergraduate and graduate courses at Antioch University Los Angeles, Cecil College, Claremont McKenna College, University of California-Riverside, University of Delaware, University of San Diego, and San Diego State University. Currently he is a doctoral candidate in the Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing Program at the University of Southern California.

Piotr and his wife Dena, who met as competitive swimmers, and their daughter live in Redondo Beach.