Alina Nelega born in 1960, December 18, in Targu-Mures, Transylvania. Graduated the Cluj/Kolosvar University in 1984. She has had short stories, plays, essays and reviews published in various literary and theatre journals. She is currently running a theatre quarterly founded by The University of Journalism of Bucharest and an alternative group of critics, based in Bucharest and Cluj.
At present she is the Artistic Director of the International New Writing Festival Dramafest and runs The Romanian New Writing Project. She is an associate lecturer at the Theatre University in Targu-Mures and runs the International Department of the National Theatre in the same city.