Monica Cure is a Romanian-American poet and writer, translator, and dialogue specialist.

A former refugee, Monica grew up in the metro-Detroit area and studied creative writing at Kenyon College, graduating with a B.A. in English (concentration in poetry) and Spanish literature. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in Comparative Literature. A two-time Fulbright award winner, she is the author of Picturing the Postcard: A New Media Crisis at the Turn of the Century (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), the translator of The Censor’s Notebook by Liliana Corobca (Seven Stories Press, 2022), and her poems have been published in journals internationally.

With over 15 years of experience teaching in academia, Monica has developed a question-based philosophy and methodology of dialogue she terms collective dialogue. Aimed at bringing together diverse groups of people and perspectives, she has lent her skills as a dialogue specialist to organizations such as the Goethe Institut, the Los Angeles Change Collab, the Romanian-American Fulbright Commission, and the Museum of the Romanian Peasant.

Monica is available for speaking engagements, poetry readings, dialogue design and guidance, Romanian to English literary and specialty translation, and article commissions. She is currently based in Bucharest.