Flavia Cosma is an award winning Romanian-born Canadian poet, author and translator. She has a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest. Later she studied Drama at the Community School of Arts-Bucharest, Romania. She is also an award winning independent television documentary producer, director, and writer, and has published seventeen books of poetry, a novel, a travel memoir and three books for children. Her work has been represented in numerous anthologies in various countries and languages, and her book, 47 Poems, (Texas Tech University Press) received the ALTA Richard Wilbur Poetry in Translation Prize.

Flavia Cosma was nominated three times for The Pushcart Prize with poems from Leaves of a Diary (2006), The Season of Love (2008) and Thus Spoke the Sea (2008).

Flavia Cosma was awarded Third Prize in the John Dryden Translation Competition- 2007, for co-translating In The Arms of The Father, poems by Flavia Cosma, (British Comparative Literature Association & British Literary Translation Centre)

Flavia Cosma's Songs at the Aegean Sea made the Short List in the Canadian Aid Literary Awards Contest, Dec. 2007. Her translation into Romanian of Burning Poems by George Elliott Clarke was published in Romania in 2006. Flavia Cosma was recently appointed International Affairs Chair for The League of Canadian Poets.

47 Poems, (Texas Tech University Press, 1992), WON THE PRESTIGIOUS ALTA Richard Wilbur Poetry in Translation Prize.

Romania, A Country at the Crossroads, a TV documentary by Flavia Cosma won the Canadian Scene National Award (1992).

Flavia Cosma was awarded the Primer Premio-Paz en el Mundo Competition 2005, Bilingual Writers MCA, Buenos Aires, Argentina, for the poem The Season of Love.

Flavia Cosma was nominated three times for The Pushcart Prize with poems from Leaves of a Diary (2006), The Season of Love (2008) and Thus Spoke the Sea (2008).

Hon. Mention Award from The Ontario Poetry Society-Open Heart Competition 2007, for the poem Cradle-Song.

Flavia Cosma was awarded Third Prize in the John Dryden Translation Competition- 2007, for co-translating In The Arms of The Father, poems by Flavia Cosma, (British Comparative Literature Association & British Literary Translation Centre)

Flavia Cosma's Songs at the Aegean Sea made the Short List in the Canadian Aid Literary Awards Contest, Dec. 2007.

Flavia Cosma is listed as a finalist in the 6° Certamen Internacional de Poesia "La lectora impaciente", Gandia-Valencia,Spain, 2008, with her poems Dance (Danza), You're not a Tiger (No se es un tigro), Don't Speak (No hables) and Resurrection (Resurreccion)

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Flavia's website: http://www.flaviacosma.com .