Bio
Lucia Cherciu is the author of six books of poetry, including Immigrant Prodigal Daughter
(Kelsay Books, 2023), Train Ride to Bucharest (Sheep Meadow Press, 2017), which received the
Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize, Edible Flowers (Main Street Rag, 2016), Lalele din Paradis /
Tulips in Paradise (Editura Eikon, 2017), Altoiul Râsului / Grafted Laughter (Editura Brumar,
2010), and Lepădarea de Limbă / The Abandonment of Language (Editura Vinea, 2009). Her
work was nominated multiple times for a Pushcart Prize and for Best of the Net. Her work
appeared in “Poetry,” “Antioch Review,” “The Southern Review,” “Paterson Literary Review,”
“Poetry East,” and in many Romanian literary magazines, such as “Timpul,” “Hyperion,”
“Contrapunct,” and “Astra.” Currently, she is looking for a publisher for her first novel. She
received her Ph.D. in English from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with the dissertation
titled Ludicrous ‘Scribbling Women: The Politics of Laughter and Nineteenth-Century American
Women Writers. Lucia Cherciu is a Professor of English at SUNY / Dutchess Community
College and served as the 2021-2022 Dutchess County, New York poet laureate. Her web page is
Facebook.com/lucia.cherciu
Instagram: #CherciuLucia