Ioan Flora

Ioan Flora is the author of fifteen books of poetry, among them Medea and Her War Machines (2000), translated by Adam J. Sorkin and Alina Cârâc in 2011. Born in Yugoslavia in the Romanian-speaking region of the Serbian Banat, he moved to Bucharest in the early 1990s, working for the National Museum of Romanian Literature and then the Romanian Writers’ Union. Flora died at the age of 54 in early 2005, and Romania lost a major poet.