Carmen Bugan (born 1970) is a

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poet and writer. Her father was a critic of the

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regime; as a result of his persecution, the family migrated to the USA in 1989. Bugan studied at the

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(Ann Arbor) and

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. She obtained a PhD in English Literature at

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. She has published several poetry collections, among them ''Crossing the Carpathians'' and ''The House of Straw''. Her memoir of growing up in Romania, ''Burying the Typewriter: Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police'', was critically acclaimed and was nominated for the

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. She has also published a book on Seamus Heaney and East European poetry in translation. Her work has been widely anthologized and translated into multiple European languages, e.g. in the Italian-language volume ''On the Side of Forgetting/Sulla Soglia della Dimenticanza'' (Edizione Kolibris, 2015). She has taught at Oxford University,

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, and University of Michigan. She now teaches at the Gotham Writers Workshop in New York City and lives in

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with her husband and children.

Works

* Crossing the Carpathians (poetry, 2004) * Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile (critical study, 2013). * The House of Straw (poetry, 2015) * Burying the Typewriter (memoir, 2015) * Releasing the Porcelain Birds (poetry, 2016) * Lilies from America: New and Selected Poems (2019), Poetry Society Special Commendation * Poetry and the Language of Oppression (essays, 2021) * Time Being (poetry, 2022)

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