J. Sorkin of poems by Marta Petreu won the 1999 Kenneth Rexroth Memorial Translation Prize; selected poems have been published in several literary journals including Mississippi Review, Salt Hill, Massachusetts Review, The Alembic, Paper Street, The Literary Review and Beacons. She has published two books: a volume of previously unknown letters of Mihai Eminescu, Romania's national poet, New Correspondence: Mihai Eminescu-Veronica Micle, (Polirom, 2000), and a study of Pliny the Younger's letters Portrait of a Pragmatic Hero: Narrative Strategies of Self-Presentation in Pliny's Letters (Polirom, 2000).