Domnica Radulescu is a distinguished professor of French and Italian literature at Washington and Lee University. She came to the United States in 1983 as a political refugee from Romania soon after she had won a national literary prize for a collection of short stories. She is the author of two internationally praised novels, Train to Trieste and Black Sea Twilight. Train to Trieste has been published in thirteen languages and is the winner of the 2009 Library of Virginia Fiction Award. She has authored, edited, and co-edited numerous books on theater, exile, and representations of women and is also an award-winning playwright. Radulescu received the 2011 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, and she is a Fulbright scholar. She is working on her fourth novel, My Father’s Orchards.