The “little gray cells” behind this project belong to a writer, translator, people connector, and digital nomad currently based in scenic southern Bavaria. She goes by many names, all starting with the letter A.
She is fascinated by nature, human and otherwise, swears by the medicine of love, and likes to walk through the world in quiet contemplation.
Born and raised under one of Europe’s most atrocious totalitarian regimes, I dreamed of spreading my wings and flying far away. After a degree in International Business, I plodded through graduate Economics in the United States, went on to study Marketing and Intercultural Rhetoric in Germany, got my BA in English at the University of London, and crowned it all with a Certificate of Advanced Creative Writing from Oxford and an MA in Creative Writing and Wellbeing from Teeside University.
For the past two decades, I’ve lived off my love of language: translating, teaching, and consulting on communication projects for iconic brands, international organizations, and local publishers before taking a break from computer screens to find a new breathing space in mindfulness.
I’ve circled around the world to discover that there’s only two places my soul can call home: the white page (on which thinking and feeling imprint their troubled tango) and the fabulous mountain trails of my native Romania.
Ready to find out more?
- Read my long short story Soil in the June 2022 issue of The Write Launch (English)
- Read my flash fiction Fish (2nd place in the Writer Advice Flash Fiction Competition 2022) in the May 2024 issue of Beyond Words Literary Magazine (English)
- My article Street Sweeping for Neurotics in Spiegel International (English)
- My viral article on emigration in Dilema Veche (Romanian)
- Travel essays, poetry and retrospectives on Liternet.ro (Romanian)
- Articles and essays in Contributors, Contrasens, and Formula AS (Romanian)
- Read my travel essay on Corsica in Photo Travel Romania (Romanian)
- Yore, a short prose I authored, and my novella Ink were longlisted for the Yeovil Literary Prize in 2022 and 2023, respectively (English)
- My novella Parfumul Evei (Eve’s Fragrance) was shortlisted and won a mention in the Romanian National Literary Network competition (2024)
- My storytelling travel guide TIMISOARA23 – 23 Secrets You’ll Love About the City and the Romanian Banat and my most recent poetry collection Behold the Searing Wind are available internationally on Amazon.
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