Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama. A multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, her first poetry chapbook, Objects in Vases, won the 2016 ASPS Award for Poetry Book of the Year. Her debut fiction collection, Every Mask I Tried On, won the Brighthorse Prize and was published in May 2018. Her writing can be found in many diverse journals, and she serves as Poetry Editor for Pidgeonholes. Finally, she’s been a finalist for or recipient of several prizes just this year, and she loves to collaborate across mediums and be the poem she wants to read in the world.

On this episode of ‘Cover to Cover with . . .,’ Editor-in-Chief Jordan Blum speaks with Stefanescu about her recent publications, gender roles, pornography, violence in America, progressive metal, and much more!

– Alina Stefanescu