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KEY HIGHLIGHTS :

My hybrid memoir Our Voices (2022) is a:

  1. Red Ribbon Winner and highly recommended by the Wishing Shelf Book Awards (2023)

  2. Readers' Favorite 5-Stars book (2022)

  3. Book View Review Recommended book (2022)

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Other selected awards and distinctions for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid writing include:

  1. Winner of the First Munich Story Jam with the Hybrid Essay Made with Time (2024)

  2. Finalist in Midway Journal's "Action, Words" Poetry Contest (2024)

  3. Finalist in the Goldline Press CNF Contest; Top 5 CNF Entries (2020)

  4. Longlisted for LitMag’s Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction; Top 50 stories (2020)

  5. Longlisted for the Disquiet International Prize (2016)

  6. Finalist in Tupelo Quarterly's Prose Open Contest (2016)

  7. Winner of Text + Bild's Contest, Topic: Borders / Grenzen (2016)

  8. Nominated for Best of the Net (2016)

  9. Second place in Tupelo Quarterly's Prose Open Contest (2016)

  10. Winner of the AWCS Flash Fiction Ancestry Contest (2010)

Publications

Since 2004, my poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and hybrid work have been published internationally in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, and Romania in English, German, and Romanian.

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Poetry

  • 2024:

    • Sound has been published in the Summer 2024 Issue of The Orchards Poetry Journal

    • Bear Wings is a finalist in Midway Journal's "Action, Words" Poetry Contest and available in Vol. 18, Issue 2, July 2024​

    • Cafeneaua Verde (German version) will be published in the yearly Literaturkreis Stafette anthology in Q3 or Q4 of 2024

  • 2023:

  • 2022:

    • My poetry chapbook Seasons of Change was commended
      among 320 entries in the 2021 Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition ​

  • 2021: 

    • 2 poems in Arc Journal – Autumn Edition 2021:

      • Dreams of Fog​

      • Maybe It Is Not Too Late

    • ​​Arcana 2021

  • 2020:

    • ​2 poems (Wolf and I Live in Words) in Wild Roof Journal

    • The Earth Mother Manifesto - a Prose Poem in Arcana 2020

    • Disconnection in Feed

    • 3 poems as regular contributor at Headline Poetry and Press:

      • My mother sells water from the fountain​

      • Speak for the Tree - Acacia

      • Skin

  • 2018: Carving Hearts at From Whispers to Roars

  • 2017: if you want to know me in Wax Poetry and Art

  • 2016:

    • Willow (prose poem) at Dog-Ear

    • Silence(d) at Poetry Breakfast

  • 2004: two poems in the anthology Evadarea din Sine

 

Fiction

  • 2024: Love Chair in 100 x 100 Volume 2

  • 2023:

    • ​Artistul at Matca Literară

    • The Swans at The Write Launch

    • Dincolo în literomania

    • 3 stories in 100x100 Volume 1

    • 2 stories on Liternet:

      • ​Lebăda neagră

      • La microfon

  • 2022:

    • Dreaming of Whales in Landing Zone Magazine

    • Justice in Arcana 2022

  • 2019: 3 connected microfiction pieces at Arcana 2019

  • 2018:

    • The Dream Maker in Friday Flash Fiction

    • Piazza Vecchia in Cease, Cows 

    • The Human Body Farm in Hypnopomp Magazine 

  • 2017:

    • To the Other Side in Flash Fiction 3 and Flash Fiction Magazine

    • Wedding Picture in Flash Frontier

    • The Promises in Friday Flash Fiction

    • The Artist in Quail Bell Magazine

  • 2016: 

    • ​8 short stories in Munich Stories 2016

    • On Death in Munich Artists 

  • 2010: The Way Home in Other Voices

  • 2004: two flash prose pieces in Antologia Pavel Dan (contest mention)

 

Creative Nonfiction

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Anthologies

  • 2024: 100x100 Volume 2

  • 2023: 100x100 Volume 1

  • 2019: World’s Best Poems Volume 1

  • 2017: Flash Fiction Volume 3

  • 2016: Munich Stories 2016

  • 2004: Evadarea din sine

  • 2004: Revista Cenaclului Pavel Dan

 

Distinctions

Awards

  • 2024: Winner of the First Munich Story Jam with the Hybrid Essay Made with Time 

  • 2023: Red Ribbon Award Winner in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards Contest for Our Voices

  • 2016: 1st place in the Text + Bild contest on the topic Borders for my essay Unterwegs

  • 2016: 2nd place in the Calgary Poetry Contest #1 for the poem if you want to know me

  • 2012: FaÈ›a CărÈ›ii award winner - poetry

  • 2011: FaÈ›a CărÈ›ii award winner - fiction

  • 2010: 1st place in AWCS flash fiction contest with the flash essay Le Maitre

  • 2010: 1st place in the Other Voices March Monthlies competition with the story The Way Home

  • 2005: Mention in the poetry section of the contest that led to the anthology Evadarea din Sine 

  • 2004: Mention in the prose section of Pavel Dan's Annual Contest 

 

Nominations

  • 2017: Best of the Net Award for my hybrid essay On the Way

  • 2004: National Poetry Award in the competition Avangarda XXII 

 

Finalist

  • 2024: Midway Journal "Action, Words" Poetry Contest

  • 2020: Gold Line Press Chapbook Contest in the Nonfiction section with The Body and the Voice 

  • 2016: Tupelo Quarterly‘s Prose Open Contest with my hybrid essay On the Way

 

Shortlists

  • Listowels Writers’ Week Original – Short Story Competition

  • In the 20. Münchner Kurzgeschichtenwettbewer for my essay Unterwegs

 

Longlists

  • LitMag’s Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction for my story Dreaming of Whales (top 50)

  • Disquiet International literary contest for my story The Artist

  • The Smoke Long Quarterly Kathy Fish Virtual Writer-In-Residence position

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Public Readings

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