Dostena Anguelova-Lavergne is a poet, anthropologist, and journalist currently based in Strasbourg, where she serves as the Vice Editor-in-Chief of the cultural magazine Saisons d’Alsace. She is the author of two volumes of poetry and has been published and translated widely throughout Europe and around the world. She holds a PhD in International Relations and is the author of the influential political nonfiction text Experts of the Transition (2010).