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 seventeen 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).

Flavia Cosma 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 of work by the USA poet Gloria Mindock was published in 2010 under the title La Porţile Raiului. Her translation into English of Profane Uncertainties by the Argentinean poet Luis Raul Calvo was published by Cervena Barva Press in 2010.

A complete list of awards can be found here.

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.

Flavia Cosma 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, Sebeş-Alba, Romania, 2009

Flavia was decorated with the Golden Medal and was 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’ Residency, Val-David, Quebec, Canada

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Selected publications in English:

• MOONLIGHT FAIRY TALES, In Our Words Inc. Press, 2009
• THUS SPOKE THE SEA, KCLF-21 Press, 2008
• THE SEASON OF LOVE, Cervena Barva Press, 2008
• A COUNTRY OF ONE, www.brindin.com, 2007
• THE ADVENTURES OF TOMMY TEDDY BEAR AND ALEX LITTLE BUNNY, Korean-Canadian Literary Forum-21 Press, 2007
• GOTHIC CALLIGRAPHY, Cervena Barva Press, 2007
• LEAVES of a DIARY, Korean-Canadian Literary Forum-21 Press, 2006
• FATA MORGANA, Edwin Mellen Press, 2003
• WORMWOOD WINE, Edwin Mellen Press, 2004, 2001
• THE FIRE THAT BURNS US, Singular Speech Press, 1996
• 47 POEMS, Texas Tech University Press, 1992 (Richard Wilburn ALTA Poetry in Translation Award)
• FAIRY TALES, Canadian Stage and Arts, 1990

Anthologies:

• Citadela, Satu Mare, Romania, Sept. 2007 (Cerul de Lapte, Trei Inimi)
• Variety Crossing Volume 9, Toronto, 2007 (The Word)
• Murmurs of Voices / Murmure des voix / Murmurul Vocilor, Cogito Publishing House, 2007: (Bilingual Poems by Flavia Cosma: The Oldest of the Old, Nocturnal Silence, Resurrection, If I Could Be..., In the Arms of the Father; also translations by Flavia Cosma of poems by Gloria Mindock, George Elliott Clarke, Dae-Tong Huh)
• A Canadian Anthology of Poetry - Butterfly Thunder, A Beret Days Book, 2007 (Blind Bird and The Moon's Body)
• Verse Afire, Tri-Annual Publication of The Ontario Poetry Society (Leaves of a Diary 18)
• Citadela, Literary Magazine, Satu-Mare, Romania (Translations by Flavia Cosma of two poems by Gloria Mindock)
• Istanbul Literary Review - September 2007 a. (Poems: Beyond, Lament, Stones-Words, Hazy Twilight, Under the Cover of Time, also, excerpt of: Rhodes or Rhodos or Rodi - Travel memoir by Flavia Cosma)
• Earls Court e-zine (Appointment)
• Poetry Salzburg Review, Nr. 10, Autumn, 2006 (Solitude and Remoteness)
• Unlocking the Muse, Beret Days Press, 2006 (Ask Me)
• CAA Anthology, Nov. 16, 2006 (Manege Aquatic, In The Afternoon, The Rain Descends, The Lesson, Sculpture)
• Poesia, Fayetteville, Arkansas, October 2005 (Night of Autumn, Nocturnal Silence)
• Anthology Amor Olvidado, El Centro de Estudios Poeticos, Madrid, Spain (La Estacion del Amor)
• Canadian Women's Studies, Toronto, Canada, October 2005 (Bullfight)
• UNLOCKING THE MUSE, TOPS, 2005
• ABSINTHE, New European Writing, 2005
• Variety Crossing, Toronto, 2005
• Parameter, Manchester, UK Vol. 1, September, 2005 (Of Late Autumn, Resurrection, Separation)
• Clepsidra cu Marturii, ed. Adam, 2003, Bucuresti, Romania
• Aurora 2003, Oradea, Romania
• Literatura Na Swiecie, 1998, Warszawa, Poland
• KCL Modern Poetry In Translation, 1994-95
• LIPS - International Women Poets 1993, Montclair, NJ, USA
• Poetry East 1990, Depaul University, Chicago, IL, USA
• Canadian Women Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada, 1989
• Liberte, Montreal, Canada, 1988

Memberships

• League of Canadian Poets
• Writers' Union of Romania
• The Academy of American Poets
• The Writers' Union of Canada
• Pen International - Canada
• British Comparative Literature Association
• The Ontario Poetry Society
• The Canadian Ethnic Media Association
• Canadian Authors Association
• Writers and Editors Network, Toronto