Tsvetanka Elenkova Author & Editor

Tsvetanka Elenkova has published six poetry books and two books of essays (one on the Balkans and another on Bulgarian frescos). Crookedness is her fourth poetry collection and has also appeared in a French edition, as Distortions. Her previous collection, The Seventh Gesture, has appeared in English with Shearsman Books, in French and Serbian. Individual poems have been translated into fifteen languages and have appeared in the magazines Modern Poetry in Translation, Poem, Poetry Review and The Massachusetts Review among others. She has been a guest at various festivals including Lodève, Struga, Tinos and Vilenica and recently received the prestigious literary award Pencho's Oak for the body of her work. She is the editor of At the End of the World: Contemporary Poetry from Bulgaria (Shearsman Books, 2012) and has translated international authors such as Raymond Carver, Rosalía de Castro, Bogomil Gjuzel, Manuel Rivas, Fiona Sampson and the bhakti poets in Speaking of Siva into her native Bulgarian. She is a doctoral student in theology at Sofia University, where she is writing a thesis on mysticism in the poetry of Gregory of Nazianzus.