Andrei Romanov is a multi-award-winning Romanian-born writer and independent historian based in Portugal. He is the author of Masters of the Ocean Sea: The Epic Saga of the Portuguese Explorers Who Redrew the Map of the World, winner of the London Book Festival Award for General Nonfiction and the Pacific Book Award for Best Biography, and runner-up at the 2026 New York Book Festival. His narrative history is held in the permanent collections of the British Library, the Library of Congress, and the Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
His fiction appears in The Greensboro Review, with more work appearing in Touchstone, Atticus Review, The Parlor, The Windhover, and WayWords Literary Journal. He is the second-place winner of the 2026 Hollowpoint Press Fiction Prize and the winner of the 2026 Write By The Sea memoir competition.
