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Alina Stefanescu

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Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Alabama with four incredible mammals. Find her poems and prose in recent issues of Juked, DIAGRAM, New South, Mantis, VOLT, Cloudbank, New Orleans Review Online, and others.

Her debut fiction collection, Every Mask I Tried On, won the Brighthorse Books Prize and will be available in May 2018. She serves as Poetry Editor for Pidgeonholes and President of the Alabama State Poetry Society.

She has a flower in her mouth.

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“The problem is that people are not honest.

If people have never been honest, that does not mean there is no problem. It only means the problem is bigger than one girl can imagine alone.”
Alina Stefanescu, Every Mask I Tried On: Short Stories

“Compare two versions for verisimilitude. I don’t know honey, but I like second opinions. A human should question what seems natural to her. Often it’s not.”
Alina Stefanescu, Every Mask I Tried On: Short Stories

“She wishes the men were honest enough to admit the familiar touched them in a way they couldn’t describe and so they laughed instead because laughter is by its nature indescribable. The best example she found was pulling down her pants and mooning them.”
Alina Stefanescu, Every Mask I Tried On: Short Stories

“Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.”
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“Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark”
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Teibele and her demon

“Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.”
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“--you have too good a mind to throw away. I don't quite know what we're doing on this insignificant cinder spinning aay in a dark corner of the universe. That is a secret which the high gods have not confided in me. Yet one thing I believe and I believe it with every fibre of my being. A man must live by his light and do what little he can and do it as best he can. In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.'

She is right. I will say yes. I will say yes even though I do not really know what she is talking about.”
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“Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.”
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