<div>Daniela Crasnaru won the Romanian Academy Prize, Romania's highest literary honor, in 1991, and is currently a diplomat, serving as Program Director of the Romanian Academy in Rome. Her works include <i>Sea-Level Zero</i> (BOA, 1999) and<i> Letters from Darkness: Poems</i> (Oxford, 1992). She has been a fellow of the Iowa International Writing Program, a visiting professor of European poetry in Heidelberg, and a resident at the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center in Bellagio, Italy.<br></div>