Alta Ifland was born and grew up in Communist Romania. She came to the US in 1991, and after a brief period in academia (she has a PhD in French language and literature), she published two collections of prose poems ("Voix de Glace/Voice of Ice" and "The Snail's Song") and two books of short stories ("Elegy for a Fabulous World," 2010 finalist, Northern California Book Award, and "Death-in-a-Box," 2010 Subito Press Fiction Prize of the University of Colorado). Ifland's novels, "The Wife Who Wasn't" and "Speaking to No. 4," were published by New Europe Books in 2021 and 2022. A French edition of her "Elegy for a Fabulous World" was published in 2026. After 30 years in the US-Florida, Arizona, and California-Ifland now lives in France.