Justyna Bargielska (Warsaw, 1977) is a poet and novelist. She was the winner of the Rainer Maria Rilke Poetry Competition in 2001, and the Jacek Bierezina Award in 2002. Bargielska also has won, twice, the Gdynia Literary Prize (2010 and 2011) and has been nominated for the Wisława Szymborska and the Nike Award. Her first collection, Dating sessions, was published in 2003. The tone of her poems are playful; her sentences appear to be constructed nonchalantly, which contrasts with the serious, major subjects that are discussed. Bargielska writes about marital drama, the fears of mothers, death, the meaning of happiness and identity and the futility of communication. She frequently experiments with syntax and hides linguistic surprises within her poetry.

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