Piotr Gwiazda is a literary scholar, translator, and poet. He received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from New York University in 2001. He is the author of two critical studies, US Poetry in the Age of Empire, 1979-2012 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and James Merrill and W.H. Auden: Homosexuality and Poetic Influence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

In the fall of 2008 he was a Writer-in-Residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut. In 2012-2014 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Humanities Center of the University of Pittsburgh.