Carmen Firan Biography

Biography

Carmen Firan, born in Romania, is a poet and fiction writer. She has published in her native country several books of poetry, novels, essays and short stories, as well as plays and film scripts. Since 2000 she has been living in New York. 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.

Her recent books and publications in the United States of America include: The Second Life, Columbia University Press, 2006, The Farce, Spuyten Duyvil, 2002, In The Most Beautiful Life (with photographs by Virginia Joffe), Umbrage Editions, New York, 2002, Afternoon With An Angel, Pamphlet Series of Poetry New York, 2000, The First Moment After Death, Writers Club Press, 2000; She also published many works in literary magazines, such as: "Exquisite Corps", "Brooklyn Rail", "Talisman", "Richmond Review", "Hubbub", "Arshile", "Free Verse", "Literary Review", "East - European Monographs", "Interpoezia" etc.

She edited "Naming the Nameless", An Anthology of American Poetry, (with Paul Doru Mugur, selection by Edward Foster and Leonard Schwartz) and "Born in Utopia", An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Romanian Poetry, (with Paul Doru Mugur and Edward Foster, Introduction by Andrei Codrescu), Talisman Publishers, 2006.

She is a member of the editorial board of the international magazine Lettre Internationale (founded in Paris) and associate editor for INTERPOEZIA magazine, New York. She is a member of the PEN American Center.


		Biography Carmen Firan, born in Romania, is a poet and fiction writer. She has published in her native country several books of poetry, novels, essays and short stories, as well as plays and film scripts. Since 2000 she has been living in New York. 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. Her recent books and publications in the United States of America include: The Second Life, Columbia University Press, 2006, The Farce, Spuyten Duyvil, 2002, In The Most Beautiful Life (with photographs by Virginia Joffe), Umbrage Editions, New York, 2002, Afternoon With An Angel, Pamphlet Series of Poetry New York, 2000, The First Moment After Death, Writers Club Press, 2000; She also published many works in literary magazines, such as: "Exquisite Corps", "Brooklyn Rail", "Talisman", "Richmond Review", "Hubbub", "Arshile", "Free Verse", "Literary Review", "East - European Monographs", "Interpoezia" etc. She edited "Naming the Nameless", An Anthology of American Poetry, (with Paul Doru Mugur, selection by Edward Foster and Leonard Schwartz) and "Born in Utopia", An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Romanian Poetry, (with Paul Doru Mugur and Edward Foster, Introduction by Andrei Codrescu), Talisman Publishers, 2006. She is a member of the editorial board of the international magazine Lettre Internationale (founded in Paris) and associate editor for INTERPOEZIA magazine, New York. She is a member of the PEN American Center.