Ioana Lupu, also known as Half-Eaten Mouth, is a shameless writer of radical sensitivity whose perversions were always rooted in the intensity of feeling. After restless battles with faith and forced cult mentality, Ioana left the overly religious rural settings of her hometown, and landed in Bucharest, Romania, where she began cultivating an existence of pleasure, only to return, at last, back to her overly vulnerable insides.

After finishing her post graduate studies in comparative literature, relentlessly submitting her work to numerous literary magazines, and trying to revive her sensibility through an unfortunate series of heart crashes, she gave life to The Half-Eaten Mouth in the middle of August after running (again) back to her hometown for a quiet summer stay. Returning to the urban settings, back on her beloved friends’ couch (she kept running, so it took her places), Ioana reshaped The Half-Eaten Mouth, not only to bear the burden of her own thoughts and confessions, but of others as well.