Stella Vinitchi Radulescu was born in Romania. She left the country in 1983, at the height of the communist regime. She holds a PhD in French Language & Literature, and she was a professor of French at Loyola University and Northwestern University for many years. The author of numerous poetry collections published in the United States, France, Belgium, and Romania, Radulescu writes in three languages, though she does not translate any of her work between languages. In 2019, a volume of Luke Hankins's English-language translations of her French poetry, A Cry in the Snow & Other Poems, was published by Seagull Books. Orison Books released a collection of Radulescu's English-language work, I Scrape the Window of Nothingness: New & Selected Poems, in 2015.