Mirela Roznoveanu is a native of Romania who immigrated to the United States in 1991. She was a noted dissident journalist during the turbulent period of the late eighties. Her literary works in Romanian include four novels, six volumes of critical essays, and a poetry book. She has published in English a book of poems, Born Again in Exile, a collection of novellas, The Life Manager and Other Stories, and literary criticism. Mirela Roznoveanu is a member of the faculty of New York University's School of Law.