Born in Iași, in northeastern Romania, Magda Isanos (1916-1944) was raised in Chișinău (in what is now Moldova) before she returned to the city of her birth to attend the University of Iași. While a student there, Magda became active in the most important literary circle of the era centered around the journal Însemnări ieșene and developed as a poet and writer. Despite her untimely death, she ranks among the greatest poets in the history of Romanian literature.
