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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Narrow like Planks of Wood, like Chinks in the Armor,” Split Rock Review, Issue 17, Fall 2021
“Infection,” “What She Said,” Up the Staircase Quarterly, Issue 53, 2021
“Listen,” Psaltery & Lyre, August 23, 2021
“Dictionary,” Radar Poetry, Issue 30, June 2021
“Inimă / Heart,” Gulf Coast, Issue 33.2, Winter / Spring 2021
“Cargo,” “Forgive Me: A Cento,” Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Volume 6, Issue 5, Fall 2020
“Nothing Left to Do,” American Literary Review, Spring 2020
“Déjà vu,” Lunch Ticket, Amuse Bouche: Spotlight series, January 1, 2020
“The Snare,” Washington Square Review, Issue 43, Spring 2019
“Falling Asleep with Carpenter Bees,” Cagibi, Issue 6, April 2019
“Fine, Then,” “Four Nightmares,” The Normal School: A Literary Magazine, Winter 2019
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