Iana Boukova is a Bulgarian poet and writer. She is the author of two short story collections and five poetry books, most recently Black Haiku. Her poetry collection Notes of the Phantom Woman, which received the National Award for most outstanding book of Bulgarian poetry, was published in English by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2024. Boukova has a degree in Classics; she is the translator into Bulgarian of Sappho's fragments, the collected poetry of Catullus, and The Pythian Odes by Pindar. She lives between Sofia and Athens.

Ekaterina Petrova is a literary translator from the Bulgarian and a bilingual nonfiction writer, currently based in Sofia. She holds an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa, where she was awarded the Iowa Arts Fellowship. Her work has appeared in Asymptote, Words Without Borders, European Literature Network, EuropeNow, The Southern Review, Reading in Translation, Exchanges, and elsewhere. Her translation of Iana Boukova's poetry collection Notes of the Phantom Woman (co-translated with John O'Kane from the Greek) was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2024. Her translation of Traveling in the Direction of the Shadow was supported by the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, Art Omi, the National Centre for Writing, the Giancarlo DiTrapano Foundation, and a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant.