Warsaw-based Ms. Dabrowska, author of five volumes of poetry, is a celebrated literary figure in her home country, having won two of Poland’s most prestigious literary prizes: the Wisława Szymborska Award and the Kościelski Award (both in 2013), as well as the Literary Award of the Capital City of Warsaw (2019). Overseas, her work has won several awards, including the Derek Walcott Poetry Prize (2022) and the XLVIII Pushcart Prize (2023). Her poems have been translated into more than 20 languages and have appeared in among others Harper's Magazine, Poetry, Threepenny Review and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

As a translator, she focused on translating Anglophone poets into Polish, including Nobel Laureate Louise Glück. She also regularly contributes to various cultural magazines as an essayist writing about poetry and art.