Alta Ifland was born in Transylvania, Romania, and emigrated to the United States in 1991. She is the author of VOICE OF ICE/VOIX DE GLACE (prose poems; French/English; Les Figues Press, 2007), winner of the 2008 Louis Guillaume Prize; Elegy for a Fabulous World (short stories; Ninebark Press, 2009), nominated for the 2010 Northern California Book Award in Fiction; DEATH-IN-A-BOX (short stories; Subito Press, 2011); and THE SNAIL'S SONG (prose poems; Spuyten Duyvil, 2012).
