Alina Stefanescu

Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her partner and several intense mammals. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook, Ribald (Bull City Press Inch Series), and Dor, which won the Wandering Aengus Press Prize. Her debut fiction collection, Every Mask I Tried On, won the Brighthorse Books Prize. Alina'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. Her new poetry collection, My Heresies, was published by Sarabande Books in late April 2025. (Source)

Poems curated by Alina Stefanescu

Punctum/Metaphor by Carolina Ebeid

September 12, 2025

“Love remains a kind of present tense. This is how we describe the scenes in photographs—as though the actions in them were still happening.” — Carolina Ebeid