Raluca Petrescu was born in 1990 in Iași, Romania. She integrated the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris in 2012, and finished a MA in Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne, working on Shakespeare, Fernando Pessoa, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. She writes in and translates to and from romanian, french and english. She published poems in The Bastille and the Belleville Park Pages, and literary criticism Rimbaud vivant.