Cătălina Matei (Romania)

CĂTĂLINA MATEI (b. 1988, Bucharest) is a Romanian language and literature teacher and a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Letters in Bucharest, where she teaches a seminar on literary theory and a course on reading techniques.

She published two poetry books: Lanul cu sârme întinse (Tracus Arte Publishing House, 2014); Iubirea pentru morți e cea mai mare (CDPL, 2022).
She studied piano at the National University of Music from Bucharest, worked as an editor, translated different literary texts (including 1984 by George Orwell, Bestseller Publishing House, 2022, and, together with Diana Geacăr, Selected Poems by Anne Sexton, Tracus Arte, 2019).

Between 2013 and 2019, she was in charge of the literary café Tramvaiul 26. In 2024, she won first prize at the National Slam Poetry Contest, part of the Transylvania International Spoken Word Festival.