I grew up training as a ballet dancer in Bucharest, which taught me early that the body is an argument — something to be shaped, disciplined, and ultimately argued with.
I write personal essays about ambition, the body, relationships, and the interior life. The questions that interest me are the ones we’ve stopped examining because we decided they were settled: what actually holds two people together, what we do with wanting when wanting starts to feel embarrassing, how we live inside uncertainty and call it a personality.
The essays are personal — my own life, my own failures of understanding — but the argument is always cultural. Something is always being examined alongside the confession.
I’m Romanian, I split time between Austin and NYC, and I publish here every few weeks.
Recent essays: Goodbye to All That I Love, Seventeen Years In, The Question in Question.
You can also find me on Instagram.
