Born in 1997 in Sibiu, Romania, Ioana Vintilă is a biotech engineer, with an MA in Molecular Biotechnology. In 2016, she won the PEN International New Voices Award for her poems. Her first poetry collection, Birds in the sandstorm (2018) was published by Max Blecher Editorial House and won the Iustin Panța and George Bacovia debut awards. Her latest collection, the origami bunker was published in 2022.
Issue #15 – midnight solace of the petty bourgeois
painkiller
within the belly of one-hearted octopus
wrath
