ABOUT
VALYA DUDYCZ LUPESCU
Valya Dudycz Lupescu is a writer, the founding editor of Wolfsword Press and its annual literary magazine, Conclave: A Journal of Character, as well as one of the co-founders of ABNA Books.
Born and raised in Chicago, Valya received her degree in English at DePaul University, studying with Richard Jones, Maureen Seaton, and Anne Calcagno. She then earned her MFA in Writing as part of the inaugural class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied under Michael D. Collins, James McManus, M. Evelina Galang, Rosellen Brown, and Carol Anshaw.
Since receiving her MFA, Valya has worked as a college professor, obituary writer, content manager, internal communications specialist, co-producer of an independent feature film, and Goth cocktail waitress. She and her family currently divide their time between Chicago and Frankfurt, Germany.
Valya’s novel manuscript, THE SILENCE OF TREES, was selected as a Semifinalist in the 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. She was also shortlisted for the 2007 Fish Publishing One-Page Story Prize, won Second Place in the 2007 Hackney Literary Awards, and was a Finalist for the 2005 New Letters Literary Awards. Her story "AU Followed by a Number" is due to be published in Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics No. 6. Valya is currently at work on her second novel.
Valya Dudycz Lupescu is a writer, the founding editor of Wolfsword Press and its annual literary magazine, Conclave: A Journal of Character, as well as one of the co-founders of ABNA Books.
Born and raised in Chicago, Valya received her degree in English at DePaul University, studying with Richard Jones, Maureen Seaton, and Anne Calcagno. She then earned her MFA in Writing as part of the inaugural class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied under Michael D. Collins, James McManus, M. Evelina Galang, Rosellen Brown, and Carol Anshaw.
Since receiving her MFA, Valya has worked as a college professor, obituary writer, content manager, internal communications specialist, co-producer of an independent feature film, and Goth cocktail waitress. She and her family currently divide their time between Chicago and Frankfurt, Germany.
Valya’s novel manuscript, THE SILENCE OF TREES, was selected as a Semifinalist in the 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. She was also shortlisted for the 2007 Fish Publishing One-Page Story Prize, won Second Place in the 2007 Hackney Literary Awards, and was a Finalist for the 2005 New Letters Literary Awards. Her story "AU Followed by a Number" is due to be published in Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics No. 6. Valya is currently at work on her second novel.