Stefan Balan is a Romanian-American poet and physician living in the Greater Boston area, author of three books of poetry and one of film criticism. The latter, written in collaboration, received the Romanian Film Critics' annual award. 

In the US, his writings appeared, among others, in The Baltimore Review, Pensive, West Branch, Boudin, Frog Pond, The Bancopa Literary Review, Lifelines, The Red Moon Anthology, and Sheila-Na-Gig. 

Outside the US, his poems were published in Portugal, Sweden, Romania, UK, Australia, South Africa, and India.

In 2025 he was a Pushcart Prize nominee and a finalist of the 2025 MĀNOA Poetry Contest.

He is the recipient of the 2024 first prize for poetry from 3rd Wednesday and of an honorable mention from Passager Journal.

From 2000 to 2006 he was the editor-in-chief of the international on-line Clouds magazine.

Stefan Balan works as an oncologist in Massachusetts. He is the recipient of the American Cancer Society’s Lane Adams Quality of Life award and the Champions and Visionaries of Healthcare award. He was nominated one of the top doctors in New York, New Jersey, and, most recently (2025), Boston.