Carmen Firan

Who is Carmen Firan?

Carmen Firan is a Romanian poet, novelist, short story writer, journalist, and playwright, resident in New York.

She has published fifteen books of poetry, novels, essays and short stories. Her writings appear in translation in many literary magazines and in various anthologies in France, Israel, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Canada, U K, and the U.S. Her recent books and publications in the United States of America include: Rock and Dew, Words and Flesh, The Second Life, The Farce, In The Most Beautiful Life, and The First Moment After Death.

She is a member of PEN American Center and the Poetry Society of America and serves on the editorial boards of the international magazines, Lettre Internationale and Interpoezia. She is the co-editor of Naming the Nameless, Stranger at Home, Poetry with an Accent, and Born in Utopia.