Ciprian Măceșaru (b. 07.09.1976, Câmpina) is a writer, photographer, and musician. Among his books are:

• Despre nerăbdarea de a fi răbdător (On the Impatience of Being Patient) – an epistolary dialogue with Dan C. Mihăilescu, Humanitas Publishing, 2014
• Infrapaginal. Jurnal 2000-2018 (Infrapaginal. Journal 2000-2018), Cartex Publishing, 2019
• Trei sute de ceaușești liliputani (Three Hundred Lilliputian Ceaușescus) – co-authored with Vladimir Tismăneanu and Mihail Coșulețu, Humanitas Publishing, 2016
• Super! Sunt un gândac! (Super! I’m a Bug!), Humanitas Junior Publishing, 2015 and 2019, also published in Hungarian in 2021 by Szépirodalmi Figyelő in Budapest
• SHOOT! (photography album), Casa de Pariuri Literare, 2022
• Corpuri de întunecat (Dark Bodies), Casa de Pariuri Literare, 2020
• O moarte cum tu nu ai putea avea (A Death You Could Not Have), Litera Publishing, 2024

He is featured in numerous anthologies, including:

• Cele mai frumoase poeme din 2010 (The Most Beautiful Poems of 2010) and Cele mai frumoase poeme din 2011 (The Most Beautiful Poems of 2011), Tracus Arte Publishing, 2011 and 2012
• Blue Max Review (Ireland), Doghouse, 2013
• Cartea copilăriilor (The Book of Childhoods), Polirom Publishing, 2016
• 1312 sirene. Proză românească din deceniul doi (1312 Sirens. Romanian Prose from the Second Decade), Neuma Publishing, 2017
• Tu înainte de toate. O antologie a poeziei contemporane de dragoste (You Before Everything. An Anthology of Contemporary Love Poetry), Paralela 45 Publishing, 2018
• Testament. 400 de ani de poezie românească (Testament. 400 Years of Romanian Poetry), Aramis Publishing, 2019
• Le blues roumain (Romanian Blues), a poetry anthology by Radu Bata, Éditions Unicité, 2022

The Irish composer Gráinne Mulvey composed the piece Don’t Walk based on his verses, premiered in Dublin on December 5, 2013, at The LAB cultural center. He wrote the libretto for the chamber opera În trup (In the Body) with music by Diana Rotaru, which won the CAMERA Project of UCIMR (2017). From December 13, 2022, to January 17, 2023, he had his first personal photography exhibition, “Trasee interioare” (Inner Paths), at the Liszt Institute in Bucharest. He was a drummer in the bands Toulouse Lautrec and Hotel Fetish. Currently, he plays in the band Wet Pocket.