ABOUT THE AUTHOR
(from her website )

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 editor, reviewer, and critic for various journals and is currently working on a novel-like creature. Her recent poetry collection, My Heresies, was published by Sarabande in late April 2025.

My Heresies published by Sarabande Books (April 29, 2025)
cover design by Sarah Flood-Baumann

What a spellbinding book. (Ilya Kaminsky) An exceptional collection… (Lucas Mancini) She reminds us that rupture–not rapture–can be the holiest of holies. (Jonathan Cardew)
She is one of the blessed fools, one who always goes over the top. (Chris Waddington)
This deep-bodied lyrical perfume she has made . . . (Jael Montellano)
There is such a detailed intimacy to this collection, and a sharp and open intelligence at play, one that invites the reader in as an equal, unafraid of what these lines might reveal. (Rob Mclennan)
These poems are inescapable, taunting, and intimate. (Nicole Yurcaba)

Two poems from My Heresies were published in spring issue of BOMB magazine!
A different poem from My Heresies was published in recent issue of Baffler!

Copies of Alina's books will be available for purchase at the event