Monica Cure is a Romanian American poet, translator, and dialogue specialist. Her translation of Moldovan-born Romanian writer Liliana Corobca’s novel The Censor’s Notebook was published in 2022 by Seven Stories Press, and her poetry translations have appeared in Plume, Asymptote, and Modern Poetry in Translation. Her own poems have appeared in Plume, Roanoke Review, Rust + Moth, Little Stone Journal, and elsewhere. She is currently based in Bucharest.
Translation Folio
Spring 2023
Two Poems from “Other Than That, Life Is Beautiful”
Translator’s Note Living in the cultural in-between means never fully identifying with any of the cultures you “belong to” but also having a surprising amount in common with others who […]