Heydel was born on 12 December 1969 in
Katowice. She graduated from
Jagiellonian University in
Kraków, with the degree of doctor of philology in 2001 and
doktor habilitowany in 2013. Among her scholarly interests are Translation Studies, comparative literature and literary criticism. She is editor-in-chief of
Przekładaniec. A Journal of Translation Studies. She is active in the field of literary translation, translating both poetry and prose. She translated many works by
Joseph Conrad,
Virginia Woolf,
Seamus Heaney,
T.S. Eliot and
Ted Hughes. Together with Piotr Bukowski, she edited two Translation Studies anthologies in Polish: Contemporary Translation Theories (2009) and Polish Concepts in Translation (2013). == Bibliography ==