Lucia Cherciu

Lucia Cherciu was born in Romania and writes in both Romanian and English. Her collections of poetry include Lepădarea de Limbă (2009), Altoiul Râsului (2010), and Edible Flowers (2015). Her first collection in English, Edible Flowers uses “a dual vision” to paint scenes of communist and post-communist Romania. As reviewer Raphael Kosek noted, Cherciu’s “evocative and precisely visceral images [re-create] the world of ‘leftover communism’” where “beauty and necessity exist side by side.” Cherciu is professor of English at Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie, New York.