Monday, October 18th, 8 pm: Soren A. Gauger

Soren A. Gauger was born in 1975 in Canada. After finishing his degree in literature at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, he followed an interest in Polish literature and 20th-century Polish classical music and left in 1998 for Kraków, taking a diploma in Polish language and culture. He has lived in Kraków since and now works as an essayist and translator for two art magazines, a freelance editor/translator, and a lecturer on American literature and criticism at Kraków’s Jagiellonian University.

His work has appeared in Chicago Review, The Capilano Review, Spork, Prague Literary Review, Milk Magazine, Jacob's Ladder #2, and Snow Monkey. He has also published a chapbook entitled Quatre Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus (Ravenna Press, 2004). He is currently working on a translation of Polish writer Jerzy Ficowski’s short prose.

His book "Hymns for Millionaires" has just been published by Twisted Spoon Press.