KAROLINA ZAPAL is a poet, prose writer, and translator whose work dwells in the spaces between languages, landscapes, and longing. As a Polish immigrant living in the U.S., she’s drawn to the questions that come with leaving one home and making another. She is the author of Notes for Mid-Birth (Inside the Castle) and Polalka (Spuyten Duyvil), and her writing has appeared in Exposition Review, The Rumpus, The Seventh Wave, and elsewhere. Her co-translations of Halina Poświatowska’s poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, Circumference, FENCE, The Massachusetts Review, and others. She has been an artist-in-residence at Greywood Arts (Ireland), Brashnar Creative Project (North Macedonia), and Bridge Guard (Slovakia). A graduate of Naropa University’s MFA in Writing & Poetics, she lives in Massachusetts with her husband and daughter and works at the Massachusetts Center for the Book.