Kamelia Panayotova (1999) has authored the novel Anne (2023) and the poetry collection The Man Who Leaves (2021). Her poetic debut was shortlisted for the Peroto national award for contemporary poetry. She is a winner of numerous literary accolades as well as awards for children’s literature and translations from English. Kamelia has been honored with significant awards from the national poetry competitions Dobromir Tonev and Sea. She was the very first prizewinner of the Aleksandar Vutimski competition and her poetry collection Ausencias was published in Spanish by La Tortuga Búlgara (2024). She is part of the LOOK AT ME: Strong and Free Campaign, supporting women who have survived violence. Kamelia’s poems have been featured in The Literary Journal, Tounges.one, Ninth Letter, Círculo de Poesía, and various newspapers and online magazines in Bulgaria, USA, Lithuania, Spain and Mexico. She also contributed to the Poetry Against the War anthology (2022) supporting the Ukraine Support and Renovation Foundation.