Andrei Guruianu

Biography

Andrei Guruianu is a Romanian-born writer living in Vestal, New York. He is the author of three previous collections of poetry: Front Porch World View (Main Street Rag, 2009), Days When I Saw the Horizon Bleed (FootHills Publishing, 2006), and It Was Like That Once (Pudding House, 2008). He teaches at Ithaca College and Binghamton University where he is also pursuing a Ph.D. in English with a focus in creative writing. In 2009 he worked as guest editor of the Yellow Medicine Review and edited the anthology “Twenty Years After the Fall: The Fall of the Iron Curtain—A Perspective in Poetry and Prose” (Wising Up Press, 2009). Guruianu is also the founder of the literary journal The Broome Review (www.thebroomereview.com) and currently serves as the Broome County, NY Poet Laureate 2009-2010.

Publications

Poetry Books

• And Nothing Was Sacred Anymore (March Street Press, 2009)
• Front Porch World View (Main Street Rag, 2009)
• Days When I Saw the Horizon Bleed (FootHills Publishing, 2006)

 Poetry Chapbooks

• Anamnesis (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming 2010)
• It Was Like That Once (Pudding House Publications, 2008) 

Research and Teaching Interests

• Contemporary American Poetry
• Creative Writing Pedagogy
• Literature of Diaspora/Exile
• Creative Nonfiction
/Memoir
• Place Writing
• Composition Pedagogy
• Literary Editing and Publishing

Degrees

• Ph.D. Creative Writing, Binghamton University (2010)
• M.S. Education, Elmira College 2007
• M.S. Journalism, Iona College, 2003
• B.A. English, Binghamton University, 2001