Whitman College Visiting Writers Series: Alina Stefanescu

Thursday, Nov. 13, 7 p.m.
Hunter Conservatory, Kimball Theatre

Poet/fiction writer/essayist Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her partner and several intense mammals. My Heresies, a poetry collection, was published by Sarabande in late April 2025. Other recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook, Ribald (Bull City Press Inch Series, 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). Stefanescu’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.

For more information, visit the Whitman Visiting Writers Series page online.