Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama, with her partner and several intense mammals. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook, Read More (Bull City Press Inch Series, 2020) and Dor, which won the Wandering Aengus Press Prize (2021). Her debut fiction collection, Every Mask I Tried On, won the Brighthorse Books Prize (2018). Alina’s poems, essays, and fiction can be found in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, World Literature Today, Pleiades, Poetry, BOMB, Crab Creek Review, and others. She serves as editor, reviewer, and critic for various journals and is currently working on a novel-like creature. She would be elated if you pre-ordered My Heresies, a poetry collection forthcoming Sarabande in late April 2025.
