Kacper Bartczak is a Polish poet, literary scholar, translator, and professor of American literature at the University of Łódź, where he heads the Department of North American Literature and Culture. He has published numerous scholarly books and articles on figures such as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, Rae Armantrout, and Peter Gizzi. He is the author of In Search of Communication and Community: The Poetry of John Ashbery (Peter Lang, 2006) and a collection of essays in Polish, Świat nie scalony (The Unintegrated World), for which he received the annual award of the magazine Literatura na Świecie. His latest collection of literary essays is called Materia i autokreacja (2019). As a poet, he is the author of several collections, two of which have been finalists in major Polish literary awards. As a poetry translator, he translated volumes of selected poems by Rae Armantrout, Charles Bernstein and Peter Gizzi. In 2025 he received the Silesius literary award for lifetime achievement. He lives and works in Lodz, Poland.