Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her partner and several intense mammals. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook, Ribald (Bull City Press Inch Series, Nov. 2020) and Dor, which won the Wandering Aengus Press Prize (September, 2021). Her debut fiction collection, Every Mask I Tried On, won the Brighthorse Books Prize (April 2018). Alina's poems, essays, and fiction can be found in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, World Literature Today, Pleiades, Poetry, BOMB, Crab Creek Review, and others. She serves as poetry editor for several journals, reviewer and critic for others, and Co-Director of PEN America's Birmingham Chapter. She is currently working on a novel-like creature.

Other poems by Alina Stefanescu in Verse Daily:
November 12, 2022:   "On the Death of the Day of the Bear" "I will die on the day of the bear, when frost..."

Books by Alina Stefanescu:

Other poems on the web by Alina Stefanescu:
"Poem for the Black Bird"
Three poems
Three poems
Two poems
Three poems
"To My Lovers"
Two poems
"Three Ways of Waking"
"Proper Fugue"
"The Home Is Six Hens Which Never Lay Eggs"
"After Moving Back to Alabama"
"Why One Cloud Is Kin to Not Liking"

Alina Stefanescu's Website.

Alina Stefanescu on Twitter.

Other poems by Between Paradise & Earth: Eve Poems editors: Nomi Stone & Luke Hankins in Verse Daily:
May 12, 2023:   "Eve Leaves Eden" by Brooke Sahni