Maciej Ganczar was born on January 19, 1976, in Łódź, Poland, and he spent his childhood and youth in Piotrków Trybunalski, where he attended the Juliusz Słowacki 3rd Secondary School.

In 2020 he completed postgraduate studies in glottodidactics in the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

His translations include dramas by Marc Becker, Wilhelm Genazino, Kerstin Specht, Lukas Holliger, Wolfgang Sréter, Andrea M. Schenkel, Ödön von Horváth, Max Frisch, Rolf Hochhuth, Arthur Schnitzler and Hermann Broch.

Maciej Ganczar is also the editor of a scientific series devoted to links between medicine and the humanities ars medica ac humanitas.

In the same year he was appointed Chairman of the Polish Literary Translators' Association and he held the position for two terms, until 2017.