Education and Professional Development

• 2024:

  • Upcoming: Tin House Craft Intensive - Writing Place and Land with Dur e Aziz Amna

  • Ongoing: Dual Certification as Forest Bathing Guide and Forest Therapy Practitioner with Forest Therapy Hub

• 2010-now: 

  • ​Granta/Professional Writing Academy Nature Writing (UK; online)

  • Surreal Prose Poetry with Jose Hernandez Diaz

  • Hitting a New Note - Poetry Class with Alina Ștefănescu

  • Mornin’ Poets (Romania; online)

  • Corporeal Writing Workshops (USA; online)

  • Beyond Form Creative Writing Workshops (Scotland; online)

  • Creative Nonfiction Workshops (USA; online)

  • AWP Conferences (Portland and Tampa, USA)

  • Sarah Selecky Writing School (Canada; online)

  • Lemon Tree House Writing Retreat (Tuscany, Italy)

  • Iceland Writers Retreat (Reykjavík, Iceland)

  • Writers Guild of Alberta Annual Retreat (Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada)

  • U of C Continuing Education - Creative Writing I and II (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)

• 2011-2018: EMWA Certificates in (Foundation and Advanced) Medical Writing

• 2012: Writing in the Sciences, graduated with distinction, Stanford University through Coursera

• 2011: Banff Science Communications Graduate with a Canadian Science Writers Association and Genome Alberta scholarship 

• 2009: PhD at TU Dortmund/IMPRS-LM (International Max Planck Research School for Living Matter), Germany

  • 1-month research stay as guest scientist at University of California, Irvine, Orange County, USA​

• 2006: MSc in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Bremen, Germany

• 2004: BSc in Chemistry at the West University of Timișoara, Romania

 

Professional Memberships

• She Writes

• AWP (The Association of Writers and Writing Programs)

• Women Who Submit Europe

• Babes Who Write 

• See also Writing Communities

 

Curatorial Experience

• 2020: Curator of the literary section of Arcana 2020, an international online digital collaboration
  comprising work by 40 artists and writers (art curator and overall curator: Hazel Ang)

 

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Editorial Experience

• 2019: Board-Certified (BELS) Editor in the Life Sciences (ELS)

• 2017-2018: Reader and editor of flash fiction at Flash Fiction Magazin

• 2010-2011: Editor-in-Chief of the PDAC Newsletter, U of C

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Teaching Experience

• 2024:

  • Hosted Kaleidoscopic Narratives

  • Hosted Write Your Self as IWD workshop for women​

• 2023: Co-hosted Memory and Imagination with Claudia Tănăsescu at PLAI Festival

• 2021:

  • Hosted Discovering Your Untamed Voice for Happy Writing

  • Hosted Kaleidoscopic Narratives for Beyond Form Creative Writing

• 2016-2017: Founder and workshop leader at Creative Writing in Munich

• 2015-2017: Teacher at Sarah Selecky Writing School  

  • The Story Intensive​

  • The Story Workshop

• 2012-2015: Leader of the online writing community Fața Cărții 

• 2011: Leader of in-person creative writing sessions in Timișoara, Romania

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