Radu Vancu (Sibiu, Romania, 1978) is a Romanian poet, novelist, scholar, and translator. President of PEN Romania between 2019-2023. Professor at the Faculty of Letters and Arts at the “Lucian Blaga” University from Sibiu. Editor-in-chief of the Transilvania magazine; editor of the Poesis Internațional magazine. Former national editor of the Romanian section for the Poetry International website.   

His poetry was translated in circa 20 languages, either in anthologies/magazines or as individual books. He has also published two novels, Transparența (2018) and Paradis (2025), 3 volumes of his diary (2017, 2021, 2024), 2 children novellas, and a collection of his social & political articles. 

Translator of Ezra Pound’s complete works into Romanian, as well as of John Berryman’s The Dream Songs and Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.” 

President of the International Poetry Festival in Sibiu Poets in Transylvania (2013-ongoing). 

His participation is made possible by the support of the University of Iowa’s Office of the Vice President for Research and the generous support of Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr.