Thom Sliwowski, PhD

WRITING
EDITING & PROOFREADING
TRANSLATION

Greetings!

I am an editor and proofreader for academic and trade manuscripts, and you can find testimonials about my work here.

I also translate between German, English, French, and Polish and have worked as a simultaneous interpreter for clients ranging from poets to politicians.

In my own writing, I look for the elegance in lesser-known histories and misunderstood phenomena. I write about Eastern Europe, the human body, language, and psychic states. My essays and book reviews have appeared in the LA Review of Books, in Sidecar, the Public Domain Review, and in the online editions of The Paris Review and Granta Magazine.

Why Plum Lunch? It’s simple:

My surname is an an adjectival form of the Polish word for “plum.”

And because I cycle and swim a lot, most days I eat lunch twice.