Ștefania Mihalache
Biografia
Stefania Mihalache, born 15 August 1978, in Brashov, Romania:
I graduated from the Literature Faculty of Brashov University with a Degree in Romanian and English. I made my literary debut with poems published in the Errata student magazine. I continued to publish poetry in literary and cultural magazines including Interval, Paralela 45 and Vatra.
Between 2001 and 2002, I studied for a Master of Arts Degree in Gender and Culture at the Central European University in Budapest.
I made my prose debut in Junii 03, an anthology of young writers from Brashov, published with the support of Interval magazine.
Between 2001 and 2004 I taught Romanian and English literature at lycée school and at the Transylvania University in Brashov respectively. I continued my academic work, taking part in international conferences and seminars in the field of cultural studies.
My first novel, Est-falia, was published by Paralela 45 in 2004, and was nominated at the fourth annual Prometheus Awards in the Opera Prima category.
I have contributed prose, essays and literary criticism to magazines including Familia and Observator cultural, as well as to underground magazines such as Tiuk! and Pana mea.
Between 2007 and 2009 I wrote screenplays for Media Pro Pictures in Bucharest.
I currently write reviews for Dilemateca magazine and have my own permanent column in Noua Literatură magazine. Since October 2009, I have been a PhD student in the Literature Faculty of Bucharest University. I am writing my thesis on the subject of childhood in post-1989 Romanian prose.
The following books are in press: an anthology entitled Urban, which includes my short story Uptown Corner and my novel The Secretary’s Poems, which will be published by Cartea Românească in Bucharest.