Alina Stefanescu

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Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook, Ribald (2020), and Dor (2021), which won the Wandering Aengus Press Prize. Her debut fiction collection, Every Mask I Tried On (2018), won the Brighthorse Books Prize. She serves as poetry editor for several journals, reviewer and critic for others, and co-director of PEN America’s Birmingham Chapter.

My Heresies by Alina Stefanescu

Alina Stefanescu
Louisville, Kentucky. Sarabande Books. 2025. 118 pages.If you are familiar with the work of German-language Romanian poet Paul Celan and find succulence in writers who weave surrealis…
Gazing at the Collaged Self: Lauren Slaughter’s Spectacle

June 15, 2022 Alina Stefanescu
Photo by Rhett Wesley / Unsplash Contemporary femininity promises power to those who secure the public gaze by going viral on YouTube. But what does it mean to be visible in this particular w…
17 Reasons I Love Ellipses in Poetry, Prose, and Translation

March 2022
Alina Stefanescu
Photo by Hans Eiskonen on Unsplash ●1. I love that ellipses begin with an ancient Greek word meaning “to leave out.” I admire this wistful, self-quieting punctuation mark composed of three dots, se…
Awl

Winter 2021
Alina Stefanescu
Photo by Krisztian Matyas / Unsplash “Awl” is from a series titled “Words I Did Not Understand.” Through memory—“the first screen of nostalgia”—and language, a writer pieces together her…