Flavia Cosma is an award winning Romanian-born Canadian poet, author and translator. She has a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest. Later she studied Drama at the Community School of Arts—Bucharest, Romania. She is also an award winning independent television documentary producer, director, and writer, and has published twenty-four books of poetry, a novel, a travel memoir and five books for children. Her work has been represented in numerous anthologies in various countries and languages, and her book, 47 Poems, (Texas Tech University Press) received the ALTA Richard Wilbur Poetry in Translation Prize.

Cosma was nominated three times for The Pushcart Prize with poems from Leaves of a Diary (2006), The Season of Love (2008) and Thus Spoke the Sea (2008). She was awarded Third Prize in the John Dryden Translation Competition, 2007, for co-translating In The Arms of The Father, poems by Flavia Cosma, (British Comparative Literature Association & British Literary Translation Centre).

Cosma’s Songs at the Aegean Sea made the Short List in the Canadian Aid Literary Awards Contest, Dec. 2007. Her translation into Romanian of Burning Poems by George Elliott Clarke was published in Romania in 2006. Her translation from Spanish into Romanian of work by the Argentinean poet Luis Raul Calvo was published in 2009 under the title Nimic Pentru Aici, Nimic Pentru Dincolo. Her translation into Romanian of work by the USA poet Gloria Mindock was published in 2010 under the title La Por?ile Raiului. Her translation into English of Profane Uncertainties by the Argentinean poet Luis Raul Calvo was published by Cervena Barva Press in 2010. Her translation into Romanian of Lettres à Saïda by the French poet Denis Emorine was published in Romania under the title Scrisori pentru Saïda in 2012. Her translation into Romanian of work by the Peruvian poet Jose Guillermo Vargas was published in 2012 under the title Oboseala centaurului/El cansacio del centauro. She also translated Manhattan Song—cinci poeme occidentale (Ars Longa, 2013), by Luis Benitez, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Cosma’s poetry book Leaves of a Diary was studied at the University of Toronto E. J. Pratt Canadian Literature during the school year 2007-2008. She received the Title of Excellence for outstanding contribution in the promotion and enrichment of the Romanian culture within the European region and throughout the world, awarded by The International Festival “Lucian Blaga,” XXIX edition, Sebe?-Alba, Romania, 2009, was decorated with the Golden Medal and appointed Honorary Member by the Casa del Poeta Peruano, Lima, Peru, 2010, for her poetry and her work as an international cultural promoter.

Flavia Cosma is the Director of the International Writers’ and Artists’ Residence at Val-David, Quebec, Canada www.flaviacosma.com/Val_David.html, and the Director of the Biannual International Festivals at Val-David.

Flavia Cosma: http://www.flaviacosma.com