Raluca Albu / Romanian Women Writers in North America II
Tue, Jul 20
|Online Event
Readings full of passion, truth and skill to match a time of tumult and reinvention
Time & Location
Jul 20, 2021, 2:00 PM EDT
Online Event
About The Event
Our celebration of Romanian-American and Romanian-Canadian literary creativity, overwhelmingly represented by female authors, continues with Romanian-born and Bronx-raised award-winning author and academic Raluca Albu, the recipient of the coveted 2020 NYC Emerging Writers Fellowship.
Watch on our Facebook, YouTube, IGTV and Website on Tuesday, July 20, 2 p.m. EST or any time later.
Raluca Albu was born in Romania and raised in the Bronx. She has held editorial positions at Guernica, BOMB (where she seeks out underrepresented voices and stories), and NYU, where she teaches writing. Her work has been published in the Guardian, The Village Voice, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. She is at work on a novel about an illegal abortion doctor who saved lives in communist Romania, told through a fictionalized secret police file and a queer American daughter's childhood memories. She currently serves as the deputy editor of Doctors Without Borders. An award-winning author, she is the…