Romana Iorga

Originally from Chișinău, Moldova, Romana Iorga is the author of Temporary Skin (Glass Lyre Press, 2024), a woman made entirely of air (dancing girl press, 2025), Auz simplu (Semne Press, 2000), and Poemul sosirii (Glasul Press, 1996). Her work has appeared in The Nation, Lake Effect, New England Review, Salamander, RHINO, Gulf Coast, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, EcoTheo Review, PANK, and elsewhere. Romana’s new poetry collection Witness Protection won the Fall 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition and is coming out with Black Lawrence Press in 2027. She’s a Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee and currently scavenges for poems in the multilingual forests above Lausanne, Switzerland.