Monica Cure is a Romanian-American writer and translator based in Bucharest. She is a two-time Fulbright grantee and her poems have appeared in Plume, RHINO, Rust + Moth, and elsewhere. Her poetry translations have appeared in journals such as Kenyon Review and Asymptote, and she won the 2023 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Find her on Twitter @MonicaCure or www.monicacure.com