I am writing the dream

Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, a Romanian-American poet with a PhD in French, is the author of many collections of poetry published in the United States, Romania, and France. She writes poetry in English, French, and Romanian, though she does not translate any of her work between languages. Her poems have appeared in a variety of literary magazines in the United States, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Romania. Her two latest poetry collections, I Scrape the Window of Nothingness (2018) and Traveling With the Ghosts (2021), were published by Orison Books. A Cry in the Snow, translated from the French by Luke Hankins (Un cri dans la neige, Editions du Cygne, Paris), was published in 2018 by Seagull Books Press.

Domnica Radulescu is a Romanian-born American writer and distinguished service professor of French and comparative literature at Washington and Lee University. She is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, Train to Trieste (Knopf 2008 & 2009), Black Sea Twilight (Transworld 2011 & 2012), and Country of Red Azaleas (Hachette 2016), and of award-winning plays. Train to Trieste has been published in thirteen languages and is the winner of the 2009 Library of Virginia Fiction Award. Radulescu also published fourteen nonfiction books, edited and co-edited collections on topics ranging from the tragic heroine in Western literature to feminist comedy to studies of exile literature, and three collections of original plays. She is twice a Fulbright scholar.