Andrei Dorian Gheorghe was born in Bucharest (Capital of Romania) on May 14th, 1960 . He graduated the local Academy of  Economic Studies in 1987.
  


Cultural counsellor of the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy - SARM - since 1995, he founded the "Cosmopoetry Festival" of SARM in 1996 (in an organizational medium created by Valentin Grigore, president SARM).

He cooperated through essays of literary astrocritique and articles of astromythology (many of them composed with Alastair McBeath, vice-president of the International Meteor Organization) and especially through cosmopoems with topnotch publications of astronomy, literature, Science Fiction, mythology, avantgarde and haiku from 3 continents.
  


        
  


Coordinator and translator of over 20 English anthologies of Romanian or international astropoetry edited by SARM. The <Romanian Contemporary Astropoetry Anthology 2000 and Guests>, including 61 Romanian astropoets and 60 other authors from 5 continents, and also coordinated by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe, was the only  one exhibited at the International Astronomical Union Congress, Manchester, UK, August 2000.

Organizer of the first "Astropoetry Gala of the IIIrd Millenium" (a joint show of SARM and Science Fiction Poetry Association, USA) at the <Admiral Vasile Urseanu Municipal Observatory>, Bucharest, January 27th, 2001.

Founder of astropoetical drama about the meteors, he directed original astropoetry performances at the International Meteor Organization Conferences 1997-2001 (<Commission 22> of the IAU assisting the 1998 show), the Leonid MultiInstrument Aircraft Campain Workshop (organized by NASA in Tel Aviv, 2000), the European Convention of Science Fiction 2001 on the Danubian isle of Atlantykron-Capidava, and for the United Nations Society of Writers programs of 2002 - <Dialogue among Civilizations through Poetry> and <Poetry on the Peaks>.
  


        
    


“Andrei writes Cosmopoems in his own language, Romanian, many of which are translated into English in his booklet <Spaceman Sazartinus’ Diary>.”

Guy Ottewell
(editor), Astronomical Calendar 1998 (Furman University & Astronomical League), U.S.A.

“The Romanian Astropoetry / Cosmopoetry movement has published a series of slim anthologies, on particular astronomical themes, including competition results and works read at cosmopoetry festivals. Issued as special supplements to <Noi si Cerul>, the magazine of the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy, in Romanian and English translation by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe...”
Steve Sneyd
(editor), Data Dump- newsletter of genre (SF/F/DF/H) poetry, U.K., 1998.

“Let me start this issue by dedicating it to the <Societatea Astronomica Romana de Meteori> (the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy) and their publication <Noi si Cerul> (Us and the Sky); and in doing so, a special mention goes out to key member and writer for <The Dragon Chronicle>, Andrei Dorian Gheorghe.”
Ade Dimmick
(editor), The Dragon Chronicle (the international journal of dragonlore), U.K., 1998.

“Terrific imagery, bizzare thoughts, quite a strong sense of the truly cosmic.”
John Francis Haines
(leader of <Eight Hand Gang> - the British network of SF poets), New Hope International Review OnLine (from a review to Andrei Dorian Gheorghe’s <Spaceman Sazartinus’ Diary - Cosmopoems>), U.K., 1999.

“Gheorghe, moreover, is Assistant Editor in Chief of SARM's nationally distributed magazine <Noi si Cerul> (Us and the Sky), which gives space to astropoetry in every issue. SARM also supports the publication of a variety of anthologies of astropoetry Gheorghe edits, in Romanian and also in English translation.”
Steve Sneyd
, Star*Line (the Journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association), U.S.A., 2000.

“To my knowledge, the Romanian organization SARM is the world’s only organization devoting much effort to the publication of astropoetry. Romanian astropoets are quite prolific, and Andrei Dorian Gheorghe is eager to correspond with anyone outside Romania who is interested in meteors, poetry and other arts…”
David Kopaska-Merkel
(editor), Star*Line (the Journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association), 
U.S.A
., 2000.

“Then the Romanian observers gave their traditional astropoetry performance, directed by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe. As always, the show was well-liked among the participants.
Oliver Wusk
, WGN (the Journal of the International Meteor Organization), 2001.

“One of our new readings will actually be a series of five readings in Romania. The coordinator, Andrei Dorian Gheorghe, has written a short blurb to share his pleasure at participating in this global event.”
Larry Jaffe
(international readings coordinator), March Newsletter <Dialogue Through Poetry> (a program of the United Nations Society of Writers), U.S.A., 2002.