Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer
Publications & Prizes
- “Pencho’s Oak” award for literary contribution to contemporary Bulgarian culture for The Air Around the Butterfly (2009, Fakel Express, Bilingual)
- Ivan Nikolov National Poetry Award for best Bulgarian poetry book for 2014 for How God Punishes (2014, ICU, Bulgarian)
- “Creative Europe” grant from the European Commission's program "Creative Europe" to be translated and published in English for Second Skin (2018, ICU, Bulgarian)
- “Vanya Konstantinova” poetry award for Second Skin (2018, ICU, Bulgarian)
- The world premiere of the English-language edition of Second Skin (2019, ICU, English) took place at the Bulgarian Embassy in London, England
- The Season of Delicate Hunger: Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry (2014, Accents Publishing) had a special event in the Bulgarian Embassy in Washington DC where the translated poems were performed by actors and musicians
- A quote from Bird on a Window Sill (2017, Publishing House Signs, Bilingual) was used as a theme for Australian Catholic University 2020 ACU Prize for Poetry
- Recipient of the 2010 Eileen Egan Graduate Student Leadership Award given yearly to a Spalding University Alumni