Yanna Bukova

Yanna Bukova is a bilingual poet, born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She has published three collections of poetry, two collections of short stories and a novel in Bulgarian.

She studied Classical Literature at the University of Sofia and has translated and published in her home country over ten books of contemporary Greek poetry, the complete surviving works of Sappho, the complete works of Catullus, and Pindar’s Pythian Odes.

Since 1994, she has been actively involved in the literary life of Greece. She is a member of the editorial team of the poetry magazine FRMK and the online platform Greek Poetry Now. She is involved in organising poetry performances and interactive reading events. She has worked as a literary critic and book presenter, and has written essays on issues of contemporary poetry and poetics.

Her poems and prose have been translated into twelve languages, including English, French, Spanish, Arabic and German.
Her books published in Greek include: *The Smallest Garden*, Ikaros 2006, translated by Dimitris Allos; *Drapetomania*, Mikri Arktos 2018; and *S*, FRMK 2021.