Carmen Firan, born in Romania, is a poet, a fiction and play writer, and a journalist. 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 USA. She lives in New York. Her recent books and publications in the United States of America include: Inferno (novella,SD Press) 2011, Rock and Dew (Selected Poems, Sheep Meadow Press) 2010, Words and Flesh (Selected Works of Prose, Talisman Publishers) 2008, The Second Life (Columbia University Press) 2005, The Farce, (Spuyten Duyvil) 2004, In The Most Beautiful Life, Umbrage Editions 2003, The First Moment After Death, Writers Club Press, 2001, Accomplished Error, Spuyten Duyvil, 2000. She is a member of PEN American Center, Poetry Society of America and associate editor of Interpoezia literary magazine (New York). She is the co-editor of Naming the Nameless (An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry), Stranger at Home, Poetry with an Accent, Numina Press, 2008, and Born in Utopia (An Anthology of Romanian Modern and Contemporary Poetry), Talisman Publishers, 2006. www.carmenfiran.com