Monica Manolachi

Monica Manolachi is a lecturer of English and Spanish at the University of Bucharest, Romania. As a poet, she has published three collections: Joining the Dots (2016), Fragaria’s Stories to Magus Viridis (2012) and Roses (2007). She co-authored two bilingual poetry collections with Scottish poet Neil Leadbeater: Journeys in Europe (2022) and Brasília (2018). Her poems came out in various national and international magazines. Three recent anthologies in which her work is included are: Immigrant Voices in the Pandemic (2023), Poetry is Tightrope Walking on the Lines in God’s Palm (2023) and Poetry and Settled Status for All (2022). The study Performative Identities in Contemporary Caribbean British Poetry (2017) is part of her work as a researcher and literary critic. She has published numerous academic articles including “Literary Translation as a Form of Social and Pedagogical Activism” (2022), “Multiethnic Resonances in Derek Walcott’s Poetry” (2019) and “‘Our Chef is Delicious’: Contemporary American Persona Poetry” (2018). She translated the anthology Over Land, Over Sea: Poems for Those Seeking Refuge (2015) and won local translation prizes for rendering Caribbean poetry and Eavan Boland’s poetry into Romanian.