Clara Burghelea and Roxana Cazan / Romanian Women Voices in North America

Women writers dominate the literature written by Romanians in North America. Our literary series, turning the spotlight on this phenomenal wave of creativity, organized in partnership with Denver-based Bucharest Inside the Beltway, brings together the largest group of Romanian-American and Romanian-Canadian women writers we have ever assembled in the cyberspace. The program, co-curated with author and academic Cristina A. Bejan, offers a series of readings full of passion, truth and skill to match a time of tumult and reinvention.

The fifth episode features poet, translator and editor Clara Burghelea and poet and translator Roxana Cazan.

Clara Burghelea is a Romanian-born poet with an MFA in Creative Writing from Adelphi University, NY. She is a recipient of the Scott James and Jerry Cain Creative Writing and Social Media Fellowship. In 2018, she received the Robert Muroff Poetry Award. Her poems, translations, and reviews appeared in Ambit, Waxwing, Cagibi, The Cortland Review…