MONI STĂNILĂ

MONI STĂNILĂ (b. 1978, Tomești, Romania) studied literature and orthodox theology in Timişoara and Sibiu. Since 2010, she has lived in Chişinău and runs the “Republica” literary circle with Alexandru Vakulovski. She published a conversion diary, Iconostasis (Graphe, 2007), several collections of poetry: Postoy Parovoz. Confessions of a Dogmatist (Ninpress / Charmides, 2009), Sagarmatha (Tracus Arte, 2012), The Factory Colony (Cartea Românească, 2015), A World of Fans, which You Shouldn’t Share with Anyone (Charmides, 2017), Ours from ours (Casa de Editură Max Blecher, 2020), Offside (Nemira, 2022) and the novels: The Fourth (Tracus Arte, 2013), and The War of the Enchanters (a fantasy novel for teenagers, Polirom, 2018), Brancusi. How the tortoise learned to fly (a biographical novel, Polirom 2019) and Scream as much as you can (Polirom, 2020). 

For her poetry collection Offside, she has been awarded two of the most prestigious poetry prizes in Romania, one given by the national public radio (Gala Radio România Cultural) and the other by the magazine Observator Cultural/Cultural Observer. 

Her poems have been translated into German, English, French, Swedish, Spanish, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Russian, Azeri, Catalan, Hungarian and Turkish.