Photo: The author (middle) with Ray Federman (left) and Ron Sukenick (right) in Mainz in June 1990 
Kutnik was born in Lublin, Poland, where he has lived since. In 1977 he graduated with an M.A. in English from Lublin's Maria Curie-Skłodowska University and subsequently taught American Studies there until his retirement in 2019. During his academic tenure he held several positions, including head of the Department of American Studies and vice-dean of Humanities at MCSU as well as president of the Polish Association for American Studies and member of the board of the European Association for American Studies. Kutnik also wrote two books in Polish on the American composer and writer John Cage and translated four novels into Polish, including Raymond Federman's Double or Nothing.

Books by Jerzy Kutnik available in Invisible Starfall Books'  Interventions in the Arts series include
>  The Novel as Performance, a pioneering study on the work of postmodern authors Ronald Sukenick and Raymond Federman (Volume 02 of Interventions in the Arts), and
>  CAGE111: A 2012 John Cage Symposium, a collection of essays by renowned composers, performing artists, and scholars from around the world on avant-garde composer, music theorist, and writer John Cage (1912-1992), edited by Kutnik (Volume 04 of Interventions in the Arts).