User:Lucia Gorea

Lucia Gorea is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary translator and professor.

Biography

Award-winning author, Lucia Gorea is a Canadian poet and writer who has authored fourteen books, as well as poems and articles. Growing up in the beautiful Transylvanian province of Romania, Gorea was filled with literary passion and began writing and acting at a young age. Her interest in history inspired The Impaler her debut novel, which tells the captivating and intriguing story of a young Romanian prince in the Middle Ages, whose life ultimately inspired the legend of Dracula. Her books include Welcome to America!-A Practical Guide to Life Survival Skills, Journey Through My Soul, ESL Games and Classroom Activities, Yukon the Polar Bear, and Speak English for Success, The Impaler, to name a few. Lucia graduated from the University of Bucharest with degrees in English, French, and Linguistics and earned her PhD in English and Education from Atlantic International University. She taught various post-secondary English and writing courses in the USA before settling in Vancouver, Canada, in 2005 to teach and write. Here she founded Poetry Around the World and Poets and Writers Cafe, multicultural reading series to help promote non-native poets and writers, and hosted radio and television poetry shows. Lucia is not only an award-winning author, but also a professional translator who was selected as keynote speaker at The Eighth International Symposium on Translation, Interpretation, and Terminology in Havana, 2013. She is fluent in four languages and aquainted with three more. Before she moved to Vancouver Island, Lucia taught English and business courses at the University of British Columbia and ESL at Mosaic Language Centres. She now lives on Vancouver Island, B.C. and teaches English literarure at Vancouver Island University and graduate courses at Atlantic International University.

Works

Books Dracula-Count of Darkness aka The Impaler – Historical fiction, Black Opal Books, 2015 Yukon, the Polar Bear, Publish America, 2010 Speak English for Success – ESL Conversations, Dialogues and Topics, First Choice Books, 2008 Journey Through My Soul, Selected Poems, First Choice Books, 2006 ESL Games and Classroom Activities. An Interactive Activity Book for All Ages, Llumina Press, 2005 Welcome to America! A Practical Guide to Life Survival Skills. Case Studies, Authorhouse, 2004

Translations Fairy Tales Youth Everlasting and Life Without End, (Rom-Eng) Cartea Romaneasca, 2018 Aleodor, the Emperor, (Rom-Eng) Editura Paralela 45, 2012 The Morning Star and the Evening Star, (Rom-Eng) Editura Paralela 45, 2011 The Enchanted Turtle, (Rom-Eng) Editura Paralela 45, 2010 Poetry Autumn Leaves (Frunze de toamna) by Manolis (Eng-Rom), AB ART, 2016 Missa Bestialis by Attila F. Balazs ,(Rom-Eng) Libros Libertad, 2015 Nostos et Algos by Manolis (Eng-Rom)Dellart, 2013

Contributions Founder of Poets and Writers Cafe, Vancouver Regional Library -Nanaimo, BC Founder and host of Poetry Around the World, Indigo - Vancouver, BC Founder and host of Poetry Around the World, Chapters -Vancouver, BC Founder of Poets and Writers Cafe - Online group

Radio and Television Radio host on Co-op Radio CFRO 102.7FM – interviewed poets,writers and musicians Vancouver, BC TV poetry segment – Poetry Around the World - Rompost TV, Vancouver, BC TV Interview Distinguished Poet and Writer Award, Richmond, BC

Keynote speaker at The Eighth International Symposium on Translation, Interpretation, and Terminology in Havana, 2013 – Paper: “Lost in Translation-Beyond Words”

Awards and Honours Canada's Best Distinguished Poet and Writer Award, Writers' International Network, Vancouver, 2013 Distinguished Poet and Writer Award, Writers' International Network, Richmond, BC World Poetry Cafe Host Award, Vancouver, Canada, 2009 Shakespeare Trophy of Excellence, Famous Poets Society Outstanding Achievement in Poetry, International Society of Poets Presidents’ Award for Literary Excellence, National Author’s Registry International Poetry of Merit Award, International Library of Poets Editor’s Choice Award, International Library of Poets

Presence in Anthologies

I Am What I Want to Be in Creative Parallels, a WIN Canada Project Friendship in Labours od Love Of Us in Brief Chronicals of Our Time Reverence in Nature's Echoes Friendship in America at the Millennium: The Best Poets of the 20th Century I Am What I Want to Be in Sunsrise and Soft Mist and in Columbia Review Methamorphosis in Echoes of the Century The Day You Left in Weekly Periodical Sea Gulls in Mirrors Enchantment in Seasons of Change Mt. Hood in The Advocate I Am What I Want to Be and Friendship recorded on The Sound of Poetry, Maryland, International Society of Poets, 2000

References

Biography included in Marquis Who's Who in America, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in American Education, International Who's Who of Preofessional and Business Women and Marquis Who's Who in the World.