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Alina Stefanescu [1]

Listed as: 
Fiction Writer, Poet
Public address: 
Tuscaloosa, AL
Alabama US
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: 
https://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
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