Roxana L. Cazan is the author of "The Accident of Birth" (2017). Her poems have appeared in many magazines and journals. Her translation of Matei Visniec's "Teeth" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Reunion at UT Dallas.Domnica Radulescu is a professor of comparative literature at a Virginia university in the USA. Radulescu received the 2011 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and is twice a Fulbright scholar. She is the author of three critically and internationally acclaimed novels.

“Immigrant Voices in the Pandemic” invites both our imaginative engagement with and empathetic concern for those whose experiences of the global pandemic, especially the social isolation of sheltering in place, were complicated by their immigrant identities. Their voices and visions break readers out of our inevitably constrained and narrow memories of the time, which we all experienced simultaneously and separately. The editors, Roxana Cazan and Domnica Radulescu, have assembled an exquisite collection of images, fictions, poems, plays, and nonfiction hybrids in this anthology.—Suzanne Keen, author of “Empathy and Reading” (2022). ||| While the dislocation and isolation of the pandemic hit us all hard, the experience for immigrants was unique. What does lockdown look like when you’re already far from home? How can one find comfort in family from the other side of a border? These themes and more are explored in the collection of stories, poems, essays, plays, and visual art that comprise Immigrant “Voices in the Pandemic.” In these stories of love, loss, gratitude, and pain, readers will encounter intellectually rigorous criticism as well as imagery that is transporting in its beauty. From refugee camps to convenience stores to hospital rooms, I was profoundly affected by these provocative pieces that evoke global memories and rituals from across time and space. Searing, strident, and heartbreakingly lovely, the pieces in this collection are both granular in their specificity and a testament to the universality of the world we share.—Kim van Alkemade, New York Times bestselling author of “Orphan #8” and “Counting Lost Stars”

• Introduction.POETIC REVERIESClaudia Serea: The Year We Stayed Home; Sunflower Season on Instagram; The Hand Grenade.Lucia Cherciu: Blue Wrapping Paper; Prayer for an Apricot Tree; Haircuts in the Backyard.Monica Manolachi: Little Mermaids; Blue Honeycomb.Adela Sinclair: Romanian Poet Watches Unsolved Mysteries Episode 1; Nightmares.Anna Veprinska: Spirit-clenched.Julia Kolchinsky-Dasbach and Luisa Muradyan: When the World Stopped Touching.Annie Lulu:L Kuta (Walls); Mambo; Taa (Light).Roxana Cazan: ode to a bell pepper; ode to hunger.DRAMATIC ENCOUNTERSEllen Scherer: Burning Money: A Play in One Act.Joan Lipkin: Surviving at the A-Ok Convenience Store, Next to the Shell Station off the Highway.Catalina Florina Florescu: Woman, a Choreopoem (or, That Time when Michelle Obama & I Had Da Hong Pao Tea).FICTIONAL JOURNEYSAmy Le: "Tree".Sandra Soli: Year of the Probable Boom 1953: Fear of Fallout.Alexander Weinstein: Sanctuary.NONFICTIONAL HYBRIDSAlina Stefanescu: Forbidden.N.S. Bala: The Heat of a Serpent's Hiss.Roxana Cazan: Mothers, Mother-Work, and the Pandemic: A Quick Look at Gender Inequality in the Twenty-First Century.Domnica Radulescu: Merciless "Dor" and My Three Houses of the Apocalypse.Rajiv Mohabir: An Antiman's Survival Despite.VISUAL EXPRESSIONSOctavio Quintanilla: Los Diias Oscuros 91; Los Diias Oscuros 113; Los Diias Oscuros 293.Najmeh Hoseini: Yara; Parallel Space; que sera sera.UR etc: who & who; historically sync.Biographies

Roxana L. Cazan is the author of "The Accident of Birth" (2017). Her poems have appeared in many magazines and journals. Her translation of Matei Visniec's "Teeth" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Reunion at UT Dallas.Domnica Radulescu is a professor of comparative literature at a Virginia university in the USA. Radulescu received the 2011 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and is twice a Fulbright scholar. She is the author of three critically and internationally acclaimed novels.

“Immigrant Voices in the Pandemic” invites both our imaginative engagement with and empathetic concern for those whose experiences of the global pandemic, especially the social isolation of sheltering in place, were complicated by their immigrant identities. Their voices and visions break readers out of our inevitably constrained and narrow memories of the time, which we all experienced simultaneously and separately. The editors, Roxana Cazan and Domnica Radulescu, have assembled an exquisite collection of images, fictions, poems, plays, and nonfiction hybrids in this anthology.—Suzanne Keen, author of “Empathy and Reading” (2022). ||| While the dislocation and isolation of the pandemic hit us all hard, the experience for immigrants was unique. What does lockdown look like when you’re already far from home? How can one find comfort in family from the other side of a border? These themes and more are explored in the collection of stories, poems, essays, plays, and visual art that comprise Immigrant “Voices in the Pandemic.” In these stories of love, loss, gratitude, and pain, readers will encounter intellectually rigorous criticism as well as imagery that is transporting in its beauty. From refugee camps to convenience stores to hospital rooms, I was profoundly affected by these provocative pieces that evoke global memories and rituals from across time and space. Searing, strident, and heartbreakingly lovely, the pieces in this collection are both granular in their specificity and a testament to the universality of the world we share.—Kim van Alkemade, New York Times bestselling author of “Orphan #8” and “Counting Lost Stars”

• Introduction.POETIC REVERIESClaudia Serea: The Year We Stayed Home; Sunflower Season on Instagram; The Hand Grenade.Lucia Cherciu: Blue Wrapping Paper; Prayer for an Apricot Tree; Haircuts in the Backyard.Monica Manolachi: Little Mermaids; Blue Honeycomb.Adela Sinclair: Romanian Poet Watches Unsolved Mysteries Episode 1; Nightmares.Anna Veprinska: Spirit-clenched.Julia Kolchinsky-Dasbach and Luisa Muradyan: When the World Stopped Touching.Annie Lulu:L Kuta (Walls); Mambo; Taa (Light).Roxana Cazan: ode to a bell pepper; ode to hunger.DRAMATIC ENCOUNTERSEllen Scherer: Burning Money: A Play in One Act.Joan Lipkin: Surviving at the A-Ok Convenience Store, Next to the Shell Station off the Highway.Catalina Florina Florescu: Woman, a Choreopoem (or, That Time when Michelle Obama & I Had Da Hong Pao Tea).FICTIONAL JOURNEYSAmy Le: "Tree".Sandra Soli: Year of the Probable Boom 1953: Fear of Fallout.Alexander Weinstein: Sanctuary.NONFICTIONAL HYBRIDSAlina Stefanescu: Forbidden.N.S. Bala: The Heat of a Serpent's Hiss.Roxana Cazan: Mothers, Mother-Work, and the Pandemic: A Quick Look at Gender Inequality in the Twenty-First Century.Domnica Radulescu: Merciless "Dor" and My Three Houses of the Apocalypse.Rajiv Mohabir: An Antiman's Survival Despite.VISUAL EXPRESSIONSOctavio Quintanilla: Los Diias Oscuros 91; Los Diias Oscuros 113; Los Diias Oscuros 293.Najmeh Hoseini: Yara; Parallel Space; que sera sera.UR etc: who & who; historically sync.Biographies