 Born in Wólka Krowicka near Lubaczów, he is an author of nine volumes of poems and some texts for the magazine "Kresy".He has a sister, Wanda Tkaczyszyn , and a nephew named Matthew Reitmajer living in the US.He is a past winner of the Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna Award, the Barbara Sadowska Award, Polish-German Days of Literature Award, Gdynia Literary Prize and the Paszport Polityki Award.