Monica Cure is a Romanian-American writer, poet, literary translator, and dialogue specialist currently based in Bucharest. She is a two-time Fulbright grantee and the author of the book Picturing the Postcard: A New Media Crisis at the Turn of the Century (University of Minnesota Press). Her poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry Northwest, Salamander, and Graywolf Lab and her poetry translations have been published internationally in Kenyon Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Asymptote, and elsewhere. She has published translations of three novels by Liliana Corobca with Seven Stories Press and is the winner of the 2023 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for her translation of Corobca’s novel, The Censor’s Notebook. Her translation of Corobca’s novel Too Great a Sky is currently shortlisted for the 2025 EBRD Literature Prize. Upcoming translations include the novel The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes by Tatiana Țîbuleac (Deep Vellum) and a volume of poetry by Dan Sociu entitled Deep Fakes: Selected Poems (World Poetry Books).
