Cristina Stancu (1990) is a graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Bucharest, where she studied Comparative Literature and French Language & Literature. She translates poetry from French to Romanian. Her poems in this anthology were originally included in her first poetry collection “Territorii” (Territories), which was published by Editura Tracus Arte in 2017 and won the Mihai Eminescu National Award for Literary Debut in the same year.