The author on Cape Cod, favorite recreation site and significant
inspiration for her non-fiction novel, The New Bedford Samurai,
and her poetry collection, Walking Toward Solstice.
Read about Anca’s poetry collection, Walking Toward Solstice (2012).
Read about Anca’s police procedural, Missing Members (1991).
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Anca Vlasopolos has published a detective novel, a memoir, various short stories, over 200 poems, the poetry collections Penguins in a Warming World and Walking Toward Solstice, and the 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.
Read about Anca’s poetry collection, Penguins in a Warming World (2007).
Read about Anca’s memoir, No Return Address (2000).
Read about Anca’s non-fiction novel, The New Bedford Samurai (2007) Available in hard cover and as a trade paperback (2008).
Text and most images © Anca Vlasopolos, 2006-2012
See a bibliography of Anca’s writing.
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