Yanitsa Radeva (1977) made her debut with the poetry book Other Rhythms (2003). In 2011 she published her first novel, The Bonbonnière, based on a true story, which was noted with a young author’s diploma from the Ministry of Culture. Her second poetry book, The Hive of Words (2012), was nominated for the Nikolay Kanchev national poetry award. In the following years she published the novels The Season of Yoana (2015), The Road to Thebes (2017), and Hades Sends His Regards (2020). Yanitsa Radeva’s writings have been published prolifically in the foreign literary press, including the Croatian magazine Poezija (2009, 2024), the New York based Absinthe magazine (2012), the Iranian collection Post Soviet (2020). Her works have been translated into English, Korean, Macedonian, Romanian, Croatian, and Farsi. In 2024 four of her poems were published in Exchanges, The University of Iowa’s Journal of Literary Translation.