LIGIA KEȘIȘIAN is a poet and translator, member of PEN Club Romania. She published her first poetry collection, Mici cutremure / Little Earthquakes in 2017, followed by Miss Houdini, in 2019, at the Charmides publishing house. Selections from her poems have been translated into French, Hungarian, Greek and English, into magazines and anthologies. She published poems in the anthologies Cartea Bistriței (2018), Poezia e la Bistrița (2019), Parodii originale (2021). She was invited to hold poetry readings and performances at festivals such as FILIT, Poezia e la Bistrița, Festivalul Internațional de Poezie București, Amural, Jazz TM – Strada Fără Nume, Weekend Sessions etc. Being a constant contributor to Poesis International magazine, she translates poetry and prose from English and Spanish (Alejandra Pizarnik, Raul Zurita, Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, Adrienne Rich, etc.). In 2020, together with Claudiu Komartin, she translated the anthology Revoluție și inocență by Mario Benedetti. Her third poetry collection, Anul tigrului de apă, was recently released in November 2023 at the Max Blecher Publishing House in Romania.