My kaleidoscopic memoir Our Voices is currently looking for its publisher. Its shorter version, The Body and The Voice, is a Nonfiction finalist in the Gold Line Press 2020 Chapbook contest. 

Publications

Read my latest publications at Headline Poetry and Press and Wild Roof Journal.

I contribute regularly to Headline Poetry and Press. In the last 16 years, my work — poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and everything in-between — has been published in several countries (the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, and Romania) and languages (English, German, and Romanian) both online and in print, in: The Poetry Question, Feed, Headline Poetry and Press (here, here, and here), From Whispers to Roars, Wax Poetry and Art, Hypnopomp Magazine, The Ravens Perch, Cease, Cows, Flash Fiction 3, Flash Frontier, 121 words, Friday Flash Fiction, Quail Bell Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, Poetry Breakfast, Munich Stories 2016, Dog-Ear, Text+Bild, Tupelo Quarterly, Hopernicus, Liternet, Ora-de-Timis, Other Voices, Evadarea din sine, and elsewhere.

Awards 

• 1st place in the Text + Bild contest on the topic Borders for my essay Unterwegs
• 2nd place in the Calgary Poetry Contest #1 for the poem if you want to know me
• 1st place in AWCS flash fiction contest with the flash essay Le Maitre
• 1st place in the Other Voices March Monthlies competition with the story The Way Home

Nominations

• for the Best of the Net Award for my hybrid essay On the Way

Finalist

• in Tupelo Quarterly‘s Prose Open Contest for my hybrid essay On the Way

Short-lists 

• Listowels Writers’ Week Original – Short Story Competition
• in the 20. Münchner Kurzgeschichtenwettbewer for my essay Unterwegs

Long-lists

• in the Virginia Woolf Competition for Short Fiction for my story Dreaming of Whales
• in the Disquiet International Program literary contest for my story The Artist
• for The Smoke Long Quarterly Kathy Fish Virtual Writer-In-Residence position

Selected anthologies

• world’s best poems vol. 1, 2019
• Flash Fiction Volume 3, 2017
• Munich Stories 2016, 2016
• Evadarea de sine, 2005

Public readings

• regularly at the monthly Open Reading events of The Munich Readery, Munich, Germany
• at the Blackbox in Gasteig, Munich, Germany, 2019
• at the Orangerie Art Gallery in the English Garden, Munich, Germany, during Arcana 2019
• at the Münchner Literaturbüro (MLb), Munich, Germany, 2019
• at the P. Bar as part of the Literarisches Sextett, Munich, Germany, 2019
• at the Frauenforum as part of Creative Writing in Munich‘s Christmas Open Reading, 2016
• at The Munich Readery for the Munich Stories 2016 book launch, 2016
• at The Owl’s Nest Bookstore, Calgary, AB, Canada, 2011

Teaching experience

• Faculty Member at Sarah Selecky Writing School
  • registration for the Story Intensive program is currently open
  • read an interview with me about my writing process here
• Founder and workshop leader of the multicultural group Creative Writing in Munich, currently led by Sarah Halliday and John Oleani

Curatorial experience

• Curator of the literary section of Arcana 2020, an international online digital collaboration comprising work by 40 artists and writers (art curator and overall curator: Hazel Ang)

Editorial experience

• Former reader and editor of flash fiction at Flash Fiction Magazine

Professional memberships

• She Writes
• AWP (The Association of Writers and Writing Programs)