Karen Stefano in conversation with Alex Pruteanu

Since emigrating to the United States from Romania in 1980, Alex Pruteanu has worked as a journalist, television news director, freelance writer, and editor. He has published a novella: Short Lean Cuts and a collection of stories: Gears. His writing has appeared in Guernica, PANK, The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, and many others. Alex lives with his family near Raleigh, North Carolina. Alex's first novel The Sun Eaters will be published by Červená Barva Press in Fall 2017. His new collection of short stories titled The Imagination of the State (Independent Talent Group, Inc.) is scheduled to be published in Spring 2018. Karen Stefano is the author of The Secret Games of Words (2015).