Arina Stoenescu was born in 1969 in Bucharest, left Romania in 1987 and has lived in Stockholm since 1989. A graduate of Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts, and Design, she is now working as lecturer in media technology at Södertörn University, book publisher and translator, and as a PhD candidate in the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University, Book history with the topic: Typography and Politics in Communist Romania 1948–1989. In 2010 she started the first independent type design and typography courses in the Swedish higher education. She also works as designer and editor for the micro publishing house pionier press with a special interest in bilingual children’s books, children’s culture, typography, and Romanian subjects. She is the co-founder of the world’s first Children’s Roma Library, a part of Harap Alb House of Stories, inspired by the Swedish Junibacken, which focus on children’s literature and reading through play.
