Claudia Serea is a Romanian-born poet who immigrated to the U.S. in1995. Her poems and translations have appeared in Ascent, Meridian, Mudfish, Main Street Rag, Harpur Palate, Exquisite Corpse, The Fourth River, The Red Wheelbarrow, among others. She is the author of two poetry collections: Eternity's Orthography (Finishing Line Press, 2007) and To Part Is to Die a Little, forthcoming from ervená Barva Press. She also writes creative nonfiction, published by The Rambler and The Writers' Workshop Review. Claudia lives in New Jersey and works in New York for a major publishing company.