Dan Sociu (b. 1978, Botoşani, Romania) has worked as a journalist, translator, editor and copyeditor, but is best known for his poetry. He has published nine books of poetry, three novels, and prose and poetry in Romanian as well as international literary journals, for which he has won numerous awards. As an English to Romanian translator, he has translated over 20 novels, and the poetry of over 30 British and American poets, as well as articles and plays. He has been an artist-in-residence in the U.S. and Germany.
