2 Poems by Ioana Vintilă Translated by Clara Burghelea

Born in 1997 in Sibiu, Romania, Ioana Vintilă is a biotech engineer, with an MA in Molecular Biotechnology. In 2016, she won the PEN International New Voices Award for her poems. Her first poetry collection, Birds in the sandstorm (2018) was published by Max Blecher Editorial House and won the Iustin Panța and George Bacovia debut awards. Her latest collection, the origami bunker was published in 2022. 

Clara Burghelea is a Romanian-born poet and translator with an MFA in Poetry from Adelphi University. Recipient of the Robert Muroff Poetry Award, her poems and translations appeared in Ambit, Waxwing, The Cortland Review and elsewhere. Her second poetry collection Praise the Unburied was published in 2021 with Chaffinch Press. She is the Review Editor of Ezra, An Online Journal of Translation. 

15 May 2024