Lucian Dan TEODOROVICI (b. 1975) is the co-ordinator of Polirom's "Ego. Prose" series, and senior editor of the "Suplimentul de cultură" weekly. Between 2002 and 2006, he was editor-in-chief at the Polirom Publishing House, Jassy. He has contributed prose, drama, and articles to various cultural magazines in Romania and abroad, including "Suplimentul de cultură", "Timpul", "Dilema veche", "Dilemateca", "Observator cultural", "Familia", "Orizont", "Evenimentul zilei", "Cotidianul", "Ziarul de duminică", "Esquire Romania", or "Au sud de l'Est" (Paris), "Transcript" (London), "Lampa" (Warsaw), "Magyar Lettre Internationale" (Budapest), "The Guardian" (London) etc. Between 2005 and 2008 (7 seasons) he was a scriptwriter for the "Animat Planet Show", broadcast by the Antena 1 television channel in Romania, and has written screenplays for the feature-length film adaptations of "Our Circus Presents..." and "I'm a Communist Biddy", and the short films "Chocolates", "A Good Day" and "Goose Chase", which were financed by the Romanian National Centre of Cinematography. Published volumes: "Cu puţin timp înaintea coborîrii extratereştrilor printre noi" ("Shortly before the Extraterrestrials Descended Among us"), novel, OuTopos, Jassy, 1999, 2nd revised and expanded edition, Polirom, Jassy, 2005; "Lumea văzută printr-o gaură de mărimea unei ţigări marijuana" ("The World Seen through a Hole the Width of a Spliff"), short stories, Constantin Brâncuşi Foundation Press, Tîrgu-Jiu, 2000; "Circul nostru vă prezintă:" ("Our Circus Presents..."), novel, Polirom, Jassy, 2002, 2nd revised edition, Polirom, Jassy, 2007; "Atunci i-am ars două palme" ("Then I Clouted Him Twice"), short stories, Polirom, Jassy, 2004; "Celelalte poveşti de dragoste" ("The Other Love Stories"), novel, Polirom, Jassy, 2009. The collection of short stories "Then I Clouted Him Twice" has been published in Germany (Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg, 2009). The novel "Our Circus Presents..." has been translated into English (Dalkey Archive Press, Urbana-Champaign, 2009) and Hungarian ("Cirkuszunk bemutatja:", L'Harmattan Kiadó, Budapest, 2009), and is due to be published in Italy (Zonza Editori, Milano) and Egypt (Sphinx Publishing, Cairo).Contact: lucian.dan@teodorovici.ro & lucian.teodorovici@gmail.com