PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of Birth: 17th of August 1986
Place of Birth: Bucharest, Romania
Citizenship: Romanian
Sex: Female
EDUCATION
High School: National College “Mihai Eminescu”, Bucharest, 2001-2005
University: National School for Administrative and Political Studies, Faculty of Political Sciences, Bucharest, 2005-2008
Graduate School: National School for Administrative and Political Studies, Master of Arts in Political Theory and Analysis , Bucharest, 2008-2010 (June 2009 – received a scholarship for one semester at the Karl Franzens University from Graz, Austria)
BOOKS
- Poemextrauterine, Paralela 45 Publishing House, Pitesti, 2004 (poetry)
- Pauza dintre vene, Cartea Romaneasca Publishing House, Bucharest, 2007 (poetry and audio book)
Included in the Anthologies:
- Generaţia 2000 (Pontica Publishing House, Constanta, 2004) coordinated by the Romanian critic Marin Mincu, Romanian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry
- PIJA 2005 Contes et nouvelles. Recueil de textes laureats (Le Grand Miroir Publishing House, Bruxelles, 2005, coordinated by Chantal Myttenaere, Anthology of schort stories in French)
- Antologia tinerilor poeţi a project of the Versus/m revue inside the International Poetry Festival Printemps de Poetes, coordinated by Linda Maria Baros , 2007, Anthology of Young Romanian Poets, Romanian and French
- Caietele colocviului, Poetry Anthology edited as part of the National Young Poets Confference organised by the Romanian Writers Union, Cluj Napoca, 2007.
- La neagra, Poetry Anthology of the Writers Residence in Savarsin, organised by the Romanian Writers Union, 2007
AWARDS
2000-2004 – I won numerous literary contests for teenagers all over the country
2004 – for the book Poemextruaterine:
- Nominated for: the Romanian Writers Union Poetry Awards, the Best Poetry Book of the Year by the Romania literara and Cuvantul revues, Tha National Literary Prize “Mihai Eminescu” for young writers
- Awarded with the Prize “Horatiu Ioan Lascu” in Iasi, the ebst book of poetry of the year by the Luceafarul revue and the Writers Association from Bucharest
2005 – 3rd prize of the contest PIJA Prix Internationales des Jeunes Auteurs, Liege, Belgium (for a short story in French)
2007 – 3rd prize of the national Literary project Young Writers Residence in Savarsin
2008 – One Year Scholarship offered by the Cultural Foundation Delta for literary merits
2009 – The 1st Prize at the Florin Banescu National Literary Contest for Short Stories
– The Prize Octavian Goga for Poetry awarded by Writers Association in Cluj and Tribuna Literary Review
PUBLICATIONS
First published poems in Luceafarul literary review, Bucharest, March 2003
Published essays or poems in cultural reviews from Romania:România Literară, Vatra, Paradigma, Ziua Literară, Poesis, Familia, Cuvântul, Viaţa Românească, Luceafărul, Tomis, Timpul, Transilvania, Cafeneaua literara, Observatorul cultural, Pana mea, Revista 22
Poems translated in Polish in the literary review Lampa, Warsaw, 2008
Poems translated in English in the literary review Jaws, Anglistik Institute, Graz, 2009
