Iana Boukova

Iana Boukova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1968. She is the author of two short-story collections and five books of poetry, most recently Black Haiku. Her poetry collection Notes of the Phantom Woman, which received the prestigious Ivan Nikolov National Poetry Award, was published in English by Ugly Duckling Presse. Boukova has a degree in classics and has translated into Buglarian Sappho's fragments, the collected poetry of Catullus, and Pindar's Pythian Odes. She lives between Sofia and Athens.

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