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 main 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 work at venues in the Unites States and Europe, including Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee; The Fashion Institute, New York; Hugo House, Seattle; the English Cambridge Seminar; 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.