Andrei Codrescu was born in Sibiu, Romania on December 20, 1946; emigrated to the United States in 1966; became a U.S. citizen in 1981; is a poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, a columnist on National Public Radio, and editor of Exquisite Corpse, a literary journal on line at www.corpse.org. Andrei is also the MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
