Bogdan Suceava was born in Curtea de Arges, Romania, in 1969. He attended university in Bucharest and then came to the United States in 1996 to pursue graduate studies, ultimately receiving his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Michigan State University. An author of five novels and two collections of short stories, his work has appeared in English in numerous journals such as Absinthe, Red Mountain Review, Review of Contemporary Fiction, and Two Lines and in anthologies. Suceava is currently Professor of Mathematics at California State University, Fullerton.