here’s the thing…
I’ve been struggling to write a short, snappy bio about myself that successfully, yet modestly, highlights all of my accomplishments while leaving the reader with a warm sense of knowing regarding my persona.
I can’t promise you I’ll do an excellent job at selecting the most pertinent and interesting facts about my life, but I can guarantee you that everything you’re about to read is true—99.8 percent true.
When I first discovered peanut butter, I polished off two jars of the stuff in two days. And at one point in my life, I only ate croissants and pasta for an entire school year. Nowadays, I’m much more balanced—I don’t eat pasta for more than three days in a row, and as for peanut butter, it takes me more than two whole days to polish off a jar, let alone two.
My first job was at the age of 16 as a radio DJ and TV presenter at the local news station. I worked there every day after school, on weekends, on Christmas, and on New Year’s Eve. I loved every minute of it.
I’ve had 23 pets growing up. Rex was my first, a reddish mutt that my grandfather gave to me when I was three years old. Around the same time, my grandmother gave me a duckling that would follow me everywhere, and that would eventually end up becoming soup…
In 2013, I abandoned all comfort and relocated to London, where I studied journalism at the University of Westminster. To my slight disappointment, there was no Dangling in the Tournefortia. I survived, however, and penned a controversial thesis on Charles Bukowski and his relationship to the Beats.
I’ve also had Coco and Cora, Tutti and Frutti, my friendly parakeets, three turtles, one bunny, one fish—“This is a zoo, not a house,” my mother used to say— five guinea pigs, three dwarf hamsters, two dogs, and two cats.
Around the age of four, surrounded by my fellow kindergarten pupils, I recited The Little Match Girl, my favorite children’s story at the time. I did such a good job that my story was met with a standing ovation. That was the beginning of my career as a storyteller.
I published my first children’s book at the age of 18. At 30, I published my second book, now a bestseller among children’s books in Romania.
According to my husband, I have such a sharp and boisterous laughter that every time we go to the movies, the projectionist needs to crank up the volume.
In 2020, I quit my corporate job and started studying illustration. Inspired by the works of Dr. Seuss, Wanda Gag, and Sergio Ruzzier, I began not just writing, but also illustrating my own books—coming soon to a bookstore near you.