Monica Cure
@monicacure.bsky.social
Romanian-American poet, writer, translator, and dialogue specialist.
Latest translation: TOO GREAT A SKY by Liliana Corobca, Seven Stories Press
Upcoming translation: THE SUMMER MY MOTHER HAD GREEN EYES by Tatiana Tibuleac, Deep Vellum, 2026
Latest translation: TOO GREAT A SKY by Liliana Corobca, Seven Stories Press
Upcoming translation: THE SUMMER MY MOTHER HAD GREEN EYES by Tatiana Tibuleac, Deep Vellum, 2026
Reposted by Monica Cure
We came to LA as refugees from the USSR in 1991. Life wasn’t easy, but we persevered and, I dare say, came to contribute something of worth to this nation.
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
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Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
We came to LA as refugees from the USSR in 1991. Life wasn’t easy, but we persevered and, I dare say, came to contribute something of worth to this nation.
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Thanks to
@poetrylondon.bsky.social for publishing my poem En la Meseta / On the Tableland in their Autumn Issue.
It’s always such a treat to see the two versions appear side by side, letting readers experience the poem in both Spanish and English 💛💚
@poetrylondon.bsky.social for publishing my poem En la Meseta / On the Tableland in their Autumn Issue.
It’s always such a treat to see the two versions appear side by side, letting readers experience the poem in both Spanish and English 💛💚
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Thanks to
@poetrylondon.bsky.social for publishing my poem En la Meseta / On the Tableland in their Autumn Issue.
It’s always such a treat to see the two versions appear side by side, letting readers experience the poem in both Spanish and English 💛💚
@poetrylondon.bsky.social for publishing my poem En la Meseta / On the Tableland in their Autumn Issue.
It’s always such a treat to see the two versions appear side by side, letting readers experience the poem in both Spanish and English 💛💚
I'm absolutely ecstatic! What amazing company Liliana Corobca and I @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social are in!
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors."
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November 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I'm absolutely ecstatic! What amazing company Liliana Corobca and I @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social are in!
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🇷🇴 Congratulations to Liliana Corobca and @monicacure.bsky.social! TOO GREAT A SKY has been shortlisted for this year's Warwick Prize for Women in Translation! 🇷🇴
You can read more here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
You can read more here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
warwick.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🇷🇴 Congratulations to Liliana Corobca and @monicacure.bsky.social! TOO GREAT A SKY has been shortlisted for this year's Warwick Prize for Women in Translation! 🇷🇴
You can read more here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
You can read more here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
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We're excited to announce the winner of the 2025 National Translation Award in Poetry: DOCUMENT SHREDDING MUSEUM by Afrizal Malna, translated from Indonesian by Daniel Owen, pub. World Poetry Books!
literarytranslators.org/winner-of-20...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:34 AM
We're excited to announce the winner of the 2025 National Translation Award in Poetry: DOCUMENT SHREDDING MUSEUM by Afrizal Malna, translated from Indonesian by Daniel Owen, pub. World Poetry Books!
literarytranslators.org/winner-of-20...
literarytranslators.org/winner-of-20...
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
October 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
So excited that Too Great a Sky @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social (@sevenstories.bsky.social) is on this amazing list for this wonderful prize!!!
Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025! Featuring 10 languages, 12 publishers, 4 collections of poetry - and much more. The longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia.
tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9
tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9
October 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
So excited that Too Great a Sky @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social (@sevenstories.bsky.social) is on this amazing list for this wonderful prize!!!
Reposted by Monica Cure
We are thrilled that TOO GREAT A SKY by Liliana Corobca and translated by Monica Cure has been longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025!
Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025! Featuring 10 languages, 12 publishers, 4 collections of poetry - and much more. The longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia.
tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9
tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9
October 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
We are thrilled that TOO GREAT A SKY by Liliana Corobca and translated by Monica Cure has been longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025!
Hope is a force field.
October 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Hope is a force field.
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During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Beyond excited for literary events next week in Seattle and San Francisco! I've just done a round up of happenings in my latest newsletter if you want to find out more: monicacure.substack.com/p/coming-soon
Coming soon
"It’s important for work to be published at the right time, for the readers who need to read it now."
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October 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Beyond excited for literary events next week in Seattle and San Francisco! I've just done a round up of happenings in my latest newsletter if you want to find out more: monicacure.substack.com/p/coming-soon
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Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org on Oct. 17 @ 6:30 pm at CounterPulse for a listening party debuting 3 audio lit in translation adaptations.This guided event features Camilo Garzón and special guests, Noelle de la Paz, Monica Cure, and Amanda Nazareno. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...
October 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org on Oct. 17 @ 6:30 pm at CounterPulse for a listening party debuting 3 audio lit in translation adaptations.This guided event features Camilo Garzón and special guests, Noelle de la Paz, Monica Cure, and Amanda Nazareno. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...
Might as well see the beauty. Days of rain in Bucharest.
October 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Might as well see the beauty. Days of rain in Bucharest.
And we have a cover! I can't wait for everyone to be able to get their hands on my translation of Tatiana Tibuleac's incredible novel The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes. It comes out on January 13 from @deepvellum.bsky.social.
October 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
And we have a cover! I can't wait for everyone to be able to get their hands on my translation of Tatiana Tibuleac's incredible novel The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes. It comes out on January 13 from @deepvellum.bsky.social.
It's not too late to wish my fellow human translators Happy International Translation Day! (literal Romanian google translation reads, "can I drink fatback"). Also a good moment to remind everyone that translators are writers.
September 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It's not too late to wish my fellow human translators Happy International Translation Day! (literal Romanian google translation reads, "can I drink fatback"). Also a good moment to remind everyone that translators are writers.
A highlight this week was a fascinating talk on anthropology and biomedicine from Raluca Nagy - and a long awaited meeting! I translated a sample from her novel for the European Prize for Literature in 2022 and now learned how her fieldwork inspired it.
euprizeliterature.eu/en/prize-aut...
euprizeliterature.eu/en/prize-aut...
September 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
A highlight this week was a fascinating talk on anthropology and biomedicine from Raluca Nagy - and a long awaited meeting! I translated a sample from her novel for the European Prize for Literature in 2022 and now learned how her fieldwork inspired it.
euprizeliterature.eu/en/prize-aut...
euprizeliterature.eu/en/prize-aut...
A nice backdrop for my translation of Dan Coman's wonderful poem at the opening night of the Bucharest International Poetry Festival. Originally published in Plume Poetry plumepoetry.com/a-tall-bird/
September 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
A nice backdrop for my translation of Dan Coman's wonderful poem at the opening night of the Bucharest International Poetry Festival. Originally published in Plume Poetry plumepoetry.com/a-tall-bird/
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Arthur Sze has been named the new U.S. poet laureate. He succeeds Ada Limón, who has held the position since 2022. During his term as poet laureate, Sze plans to have a special focus on translating poetry originally written in other languages. Read more: at.pw.org/ArthurSze
September 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Arthur Sze has been named the new U.S. poet laureate. He succeeds Ada Limón, who has held the position since 2022. During his term as poet laureate, Sze plans to have a special focus on translating poetry originally written in other languages. Read more: at.pw.org/ArthurSze
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Aww, this makes my heart so full! JELLYFISH HAVE NO EARS has been longlisted for @littranslate.bsky.social's National Translation Award! literarytranslators.org/awards/2025-...
September 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Aww, this makes my heart so full! JELLYFISH HAVE NO EARS has been longlisted for @littranslate.bsky.social's National Translation Award! literarytranslators.org/awards/2025-...
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Discover Romanian Romani author Madeline Potter’s excerpt from her newest book, The Roma: A Travelling History (2025), a moving reflection on Romani memory and identity challenging erasure and reclaiming the power of storytelling.
Read via @literaryhub.bsky.social:
#Roma #Amreading #Booksky
Read via @literaryhub.bsky.social:
#Roma #Amreading #Booksky
In From the Margins: On Letting the Roma Narrate Their Own Story
From a very young age I was drawn to the world of fiction. Every day my grandfather would walk me home from nursery and tell me a story as we walked along the lifeless streets. I wish I could remem…
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September 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Discover Romanian Romani author Madeline Potter’s excerpt from her newest book, The Roma: A Travelling History (2025), a moving reflection on Romani memory and identity challenging erasure and reclaiming the power of storytelling.
Read via @literaryhub.bsky.social:
#Roma #Amreading #Booksky
Read via @literaryhub.bsky.social:
#Roma #Amreading #Booksky
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On Ukraine's Independence Day, here are 10 books to help you understand the country better. My little listicle for @kyivindependent.com.
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kyivindependent.com/10-books-to-...
10 books to better understand Ukraine on its Independence Day
Thirty-four years on, Ukraine’s independence endures — even as Russia’s full-scale war puts its people to the ultimate test. That’s why Independence Day, marked on Aug. 24, is more than just a holiday...
kyivindependent.com
August 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
On Ukraine's Independence Day, here are 10 books to help you understand the country better. My little listicle for @kyivindependent.com.
kyivindependent.com/10-books-to-...
kyivindependent.com/10-books-to-...
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"Do maintain a robust social media presence; aim to post between 1 and 1,000 times a year."
Lara Vergnaud tells it like it is
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Lara Vergnaud tells it like it is
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
A Primer on Pitching Translations - Words Without Borders
Award-winning translator Lara Vergnaud offers a tongue-in-cheek guide for translators in search of a publisher.
wordswithoutborders.org
August 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"Do maintain a robust social media presence; aim to post between 1 and 1,000 times a year."
Lara Vergnaud tells it like it is
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Lara Vergnaud tells it like it is
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
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Thanks, Monica! It was such a pleasure to talk to you both about this wonderful book. It really was one of the most compelling original things I've read in a long time.
July 29, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Thanks, Monica! It was such a pleasure to talk to you both about this wonderful book. It really was one of the most compelling original things I've read in a long time.
Liliana Corobca and I gave an interview to @joewilliamshistory.bsky.social at Trafika Europe Radio on The Censor's Notebook (@sevenstories.bsky.social/@sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social), with a reading starting at 5:10. Always love introducing this ingenious book to new readers!
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Trafika Europe Radio - Trafika Europe
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July 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Liliana Corobca and I gave an interview to @joewilliamshistory.bsky.social at Trafika Europe Radio on The Censor's Notebook (@sevenstories.bsky.social/@sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social), with a reading starting at 5:10. Always love introducing this ingenious book to new readers!
bit.ly/censors-note...
bit.ly/censors-note...