Irina Dumitrescu is a medievalist, memoirist, and lifelong immigrant. Her writing has appeared in Longreads, The Yale Review, Southwest Review, Times Literary Supplement, Scena9, Literary Hub, and Marginalia Review of Books, among other journals, and has been included in Best American Essays 2016, Best Food Writing 2017, and Wine Reads: A Literary Anthology of Wine Writing. She can be found online at irinadumitrescu.com or or @irinibus.