The author on Cape Cod, favorite recreation site and significant inspiration for The New Bedford Samurai and a forthcoming project.
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Read about Anca’s police procedural, Missing Members (1991).
Read about Anca’s poetry collection, Penguins in a Warming World (2007).
Anca Vlasopolos has published a detective novel, a memoir, various short stories, over 200 poems, the poetry collection Penguins in a Warming World, and the forthcoming non-fiction novel The New Bedford Samurai.
She was born in 1948 in Bucharest, Rumania. Her father, a political prisoner of the Communist regime in Rumania, died when Anca was eight. After a sojourn in Paris and Brussels, at fourteen she immigrated to the United States with her mother, a prominent Rumanian intellectual and a survivor of Auschwitz. Anca is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She is married to Anthony Ambrogio, a writer and editor; they have two daughters: Olivia Vlasopolos Ambrogio and Beatriz Rosa Jimenez Ambrogio.
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Read about Anca’s memoir, No Return Address (2000).
Read about Anca’s non-fiction novel, The New Bedford Samurai (2007).
Text and most images © Anca Vlasopolos, 2006, 2007
See a bibliography of Anca’s writing.