Alina Stefanescu

Listed as:

Fiction Writer, Poet

Public address:

Tuscaloosa, AL 35404

Email:

rainscented@gmail.com

Bio:

I am currently seeking an agent.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Romanian

Favorite authors:

Norman Manea, William Gass, Grace Paley, Mary Gaitskill, Walker Percy, Hannah Arendt, Emma Goldman, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Greg Jackson, Tony Judt, Vaclav Havel, Wislawa Szymborska, Etgar Keret, Bonnie Campbell, Ursula K. Le Guin, Fernando Pessoa, Leonard Michaels, Mary Ruefle, Rilke, Mircea Cartarescu, Harold Brodkey, Benjamin Fondane...

Born in:

Bucharest

Raised in:

Tuscaloosa, AL

Alabama

Website:

http://www.alinastefanescu.com [2]

Prizes won:

Winner, Brighthorse Fiction Collection Prize (Brighthorse Books, 2016)- Winner, Best Poetry Book of 2016 (Alabama State Poetry Society) - Winner, Ryan R. Gibbs Award For Flash Fiction (New Delta Review, 2015) - Honorable Mention, Helen Magazine Short Story Contest (2015) - Finalist, Robert Dana Poetry Poetry (Anhinga Press, 2015) - Finalist, Fiction Southeast Editor's Prize (2015) - Finalist, Gertrude Press Fiction Chapbook Prize (2015) - Finalist, Black Warrior Review Poetry Prize (2014)

What I'm reading now:

Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays By Women by edited by Marcia Aldrich

The Alphabet by Richard Silliman

New American Stories by edited by Ben Marcus

Between Song and Story: Essays for the Twenty-First Century by edited by Sheryl St. Germain and Margaret L. Whitford

Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales by Margaret Atwood

Prefers to work with:

Any