Jakub Kornhauser (b. 1984) made his literary debut with a number of short stories and prose poetry pieces published in various magazines. His first poetry book “Niebezpieczny paragraph” (The dangerous paragraph) came out in 2007. In 2016, his third poetry book “Drożdżownia” (The yeast factory) won the Wisława Szymborska Award. A volume of his collected essays was released in 2018, followed by one more collection of his poems published in 2019.