Cristina A Bejan

Cristina A. Bejan is a Romanian-American poet, historian and theatre artist based in Denver, Colorado. She grew up in Durham, North Carolina, and received her BA in Philosophy from Northwestern University, where she also studied theatre. She is an Oxford DPhil and a Rhodes and Fulbright scholar. She has held fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Georgetown University and the Woodrow Wilson Center, and has taught history at Duke University and Metropolitan State University...See more

Cristina A. Bejan is a Romanian-American poet, historian and theatre artist based in Denver, Colorado. She grew up in Durham, North Carolina, and received her BA in Philosophy from Northwestern University, where she also studied theatre. She is an Oxford DPhil and a Rhodes and Fulbright scholar. She has held fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Georgetown University and the Woodrow Wilson Center, and has taught history at Duke University and Metropolitan State University of Denver, among others. A playwright, Bejan has written eighteen plays, many of which have been produced in the United States, Romania, the United Kingdom and Vanuatu. She is founding executive director of the arts and culture collective Bucharest Inside the Beltway. She has performed her poetry under the stage name "Lady Godiva" across the United States and Romania, getting her start at Washington DC's Busboys and Poets. Green Horses on the Walls is Bejan's first book of poetry and her second book after Intellectuals and Fascism in Interwar Romania: The Criterion Association (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). She is also a contributing author for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos Vol. 3 (Indiana University Press, 2018). She has appeared on C-SPAN, and her work has been featured in the Washington Post, Huffington Post, American Prospect, Evenimentul Zilei and Observator Cultural, among others. Please visit cristinaabejan.com; Cristina A. Bejan (FB); @CristinaABejan (Twitter); and @bucharestinsidethebeltway (IG) See less