Books
Witness Protection, winner of the 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition
(Black Lawrence Press, 2027)
a woman made entirely of air (dancing girl press, 2025)
Temporary Skin (Glass Lyre Press, 2024)
Auz simplu / Simple Hearing (Semne Press: Bucharest, 2000)
Poemul sosirii / Poem of Arrival (Glasul Press: Chisinau, 1996)
Anthologies
“Avalon,” “Ghazal to Ward Off Oblivion,” Nūr Melange: A Ghazal Anthology (Glass Lyre Press, 2024)
“Fall,” Between Paradise and Earth: Eve Poems (Orison Books, 2023)
Interviews
“hopelessness / is a room I’ve had to bless & burn”: Romana Iorga interviews Violeta Garcia-Mendoza on “Songs for the Land-Bound” , Psaltery & Lyre, February 2025
Cross-Ties: Kelly R. Samuels interviews Romana Iorga for West Trestle Review, March 3, 2024
Cross-Ties: Romana Iorga interviews Kelly R. Samuels for West Trestle Review, March 3, 2024
Mathematics, Gallows Humor, and the Intensity of NaPoWriMo, Mud Season Review, January 2022
Contributor Spotlight: Interview with Romana Iorga in Rappahannock Review, Issue 8.3, Summer 2021
Selected Poems
“Verdict,” The Cortland Review, Issue 94, Spring 2025
“Bread,” Poetry Daily, December 17, 2024
“Metamorphoses,” Whale Road Review, Issue 36, Fall 2024
“This Silence Is the Largest I Could Find,” Potomac Review, Issue 75, Fall 2024
“Late Poem: A Cento,” “Fog Has the Shape of Those We Loved,” Tupelo Quarterly, Issue 33, Fall 2024
“Sweetness, Time,” Prime Number Magazine, Issue 257, May-August 2024
“Waiting for Engraftment,” Harpur Palate, Issue 23.1, Spring / Summer 2024
“Square Lament,” Up the Staircase Quarterly, Issue 65, Spring 2024
“For Someone Who Listens,” Midway Journal, Volume 18, Issue 2, Spring 2024
“i have two DNAs one belongs to my old,” Blood Orange Review, Volume 16.1, Spring 2024
“I Was Afraid of Opening My Mouth,” The Indianapolis Review, Issue 27, Winter 2024
“Attempt at Order,” Action, Spectacle, Winter 2023, Part III
“Survival Instinct,” The Shore , Issue 20, Winter 2023
“Autophagy,” “life without words,” “The Song,” “the last ferryboat,” “New Sheets,” Spoon River Poetry Review, Issue 48.1, Summer 2023
“Transfiguration,” Bracken, Fall 2022
“The Baby,” The Nation, January 2023 Issue
“About Cement,” “What It Means to Look Back,” Saranac Review, Issue 17, Winter 2022
“Weeding,” “Eve to Adam at the End of the World,” Roanoke Review, Fall 2022
“Answers to Y or N Questions,” The Boiler, Issue 35, Fall 2022
“Confabulation of the Self with the Self,” “Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima, Proxima Culpa,” Guesthouse, Issue 10, Summer 2022
“I Love the Dark Hours of My Being,” Redivider, Issue 18.2, June 2022
“The Other Side,” Sweet: A Literary Confection, Issue 14.3, May 2022
“Shadow Children,” Bear Review, Volume 8.2, April 2022
“The Curse,” Another Chicago Magazine, April 28, 2022
“I Should Have Been a Ventriloquist,” RHINO Poetry, Spring 2022
“Blue,” “Hell Hath No Fury,” Sundog Lit, Issue 20, Spring 2022
“Doppelganger,” West Trestle Review, January/February 2022
“Fairy Tale,” “Danse Macabre,” Heavy Feather Review, Haunted Passages, January 11, 2022
“Hunger,” Rust + Moth, Winter 2021
“The Best in the Midwest,” “After Talking to My Daughter About the Magic of Algebra,” “The Play,” Mud Season Review, Issue 59, December 2021
“Mnemonics,” Tupelo Quarterly, Issue 25, Fall 2021
“The Morphology of Shame,” Jet Fuel Review, Issue 22, Fall 2021
“Narrow like Planks of Wood, like Chinks in the Armor,” Split Rock Review, Issue 17, Fall 2021
“layers of absence,” Great River Review, Issue 68, Fall 2021
“Infection,” “What She Said,” Up the Staircase Quarterly, Issue 53, 2021
“From One Leaf to Another,” Rappahannock Review, Issue 8.3, Summer 2021
“Aegean Blue,” The Indianapolis Review, Issue 17, Summer 2021, poem nominated for a Pushcart Prize
“Listen,” Psaltery & Lyre, August 23, 2021
“Dictionary,” Radar Poetry, Issue 30, June 2021
“Schadenfreude,” Pangyrus, Issue 9, June 4, 2021
“The Necessity of Being Lonely,” Barely South Review, Volume 12.2, Spring 2021
“Inimă / Heart,” Gulf Coast, Issue 33.2, Winter / Spring 2021
“Golem,” Pedestal Magazine, Issue 87, 2020
“Shadowlight,” Halfway Down the Stairs, the “Inheritance” Issue, December 1, 2020
“questions for trees,” The Inflectionist Review, Issue 11, October 2020
“punctuation,” the tiny, Issue 9, October 2020
“Cargo,” “Forgive Me: A Cento,” Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Volume 6, Issue 5, Fall 2020
“Things to Do with Silence,” JMWW, Summer 2020
“Another Oedipus Story,” Orange Blossom Review, Issue 4, Summer 2020
“Writing Yourself Out,” Thimble Literary Magazine, Vol. 3, no 1, Summer 2020
“The Wolves and the Crucifix,” The Ekphrastic Review, June 17, 2020
“Nothing Left to Do,” American Literary Review, Spring 2020
“The Shape of Her Body in the Snow,” “exhumation,” Poemeleon, the Tryth/y Issue, Volume XI, Spring 2020
“Thief,” Moria, Issue 5, Spring 2020
“Déjà vu,” Lunch Ticket, Amuse Bouche: Spotlight series, January 1, 2020
“Rain in March,” Parentheses Journal, Issue 07, Fall 2019
“The Fig Tree,” Swimming with Elephants Publications, Weekly Write: September 1, 2019
“Piano Lesson,” New Limestone Review, July 2019
“a woman made entirely of air,” “that poem you wrote,” Arkana, Editor’s Choice Award, Issue 6, April 2019
“Alter Ego,” “This bruised shadow of a promise,” Miracle Monocle, Issue 12, Spring 2019
“The Snare,” Washington Square Review, Issue 43, Spring 2019
“Falling Asleep with Carpenter Bees,” Cagibi, Issue 6, April 2019
“A Poet Is,” Swimming with Elephants Publications, March 2019
“Fine, Then,” “Four Nightmares,” The Normal School: A Literary Magazine, Winter 2019
“The Lion,” “Orchids,” 2River View, Issue 18.2, Winter 2014
Romana Iorga 