About Anca Roncea

Anca Roncea is a poet and translator. She is a graduate of University of Iowa's MFA program in Literary Translation and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop poetry program. She is also a graduate of the University of Bucharest’s Foreign Languages programs in Modern Greek and American Cultural Studies. In 2012-2013 she was a Fulbright visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. She has lived in Bucharest, Iowa City, Yangon, Los Angeles, Paris and is currently in New York where she writes and translates poems. Through her work she explores the space where language can create pivots in the midst of displacement while incorporating the aesthetics of Constantin Brancusi and the women artists of the Dada Movement. Her work can be found in the Berkeley Poetry Review, Beecher's Magazine, Omniverse and Asymptote, the Bare Life Review and the upcoming issue of Lana Turner.