Monika Sznajderman has been the head of Czarne, Poland's leading publisher of literary non-fiction, since 1996. She is a cultural anthropologist, author, and editor of numerous works of cultural criticism. Her father, Marek Sznajderman (whose story, among others, is told in The Pepper Forgers) was a renowned cardiologist, and her grandfather (also in the book) was a renowned neurologist. Her husband is Andrzej Stasiuk, one of Poland's best-known writers of fiction and literary journalism.
