READINGS United States

Cristofovici's reading tour in the US includes:
        • Thursday, October 22, 2015, 7:00 pm., Utah Book Festival, The King's English Bookstore, Salt Lake City, Utah
http://www.utahhumanities.org/index.php/component/com_bookfestival  /Itemid,288/id,266/view,event/
        • Thursday, October 29, 2015, 7:30 p.m., Berry College, McAllister Auditorium, Mount Berry, Georgia
 READING TOUR IMPRESSIONS, October 2015 PRESS

http://artistsofutah.org/15Bytes/index.php/ninebark-and-the-micro-press-movement/

ART EVENTS

Fragments of Stela in association to artwork by Marsha McDonald and Daniel Cristofovici, as well as the book trailer have been included in the 3rd edition of The Venice Vending Machine, an installation featuring international artists, curated by Marina Moreno, Serra dei Giardini, Venezia, September 22-October 4, 2015.
Exibition Catalogue
 http://www.venicevendingmachine3.com/

Book trailer

"Stela" by Anca Cristofovici - Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PC0w_cNQds

With original film beads by Marsha McDonald. Produced by Tyler Marino.
Cover art : Marsha McDonald, "Lampmoons", photographic collage, 2013. 

About the author
Anca Cristofovici is a trilingual European writer, born in Romania and currently living in France, where she is a professor of American literature and art. She has also studied and taught in the United States.

 

Representative of her multicultural experience, her publication background includes essays, translations, fiction, and poetry, published in English, French, and Romanian, in Europe and the United States. She is the author of John Hawkes. L'enfant & le cannibale (Paris: Belin, 1997), a book of essays on photography, Touching Surfaces (N.Y./Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2009), and co-editor of The Art of Collaboration. Artists, Poets, Books (Victoria, TX: Cuneiform, 2015). Her poetry translations include Ana Blandiana, The Hour of Sand (London: Anvil, 1989;1990, currently with Carcanet.)
Cristofovici's fiction in English has appeared in American literary journals and online internatinal artists' platforms, and she has been invited to read at venues in the Unites States and Europe, including Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee; the English Cambridge Seminar and Poetry International at Royal Festival Hall, London; and WICE, Paris.

Among her honors are grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Terra Foundation for American Art, Université Paris-Sorbonne, and The British Academy, and writers' residencies at Villa Mont Noir, France and at The Rowohlt Foundation, Château de Lavigny, Switzerland.

                                                         

About the novel

A woman has been declared dead following a car accident. In a climate of doubt, her teenage daughter suspects other possibilities. As she persists in untangling a web of whispers and rumors about her mother's mysterious disappearance, Cora — a young creative dancer — makes her way out from the perimeter of fear and step by step takes off layers of trauma.  
Unsparingly precise about life under oppressive circumstances, the novel explores the strategies of survival in a world of vanishing presences. Intensly poetic with a startling touch of humor, it mitigates loss through the transformative powers of art: found footage, a video piece reminscent of Bill Viola, body work evocative of Merce Cunnigham's quest of form into chaos.

Stela is a novel of uncanny suspense about loss and the forms it takes to carry life farther.