Izidora Angel is a Bulgarian-born writer, translator and curator living in Chicago. She has written essays and critique for the Chicago Reader, Publishing Perspectives, Three Percent, Egoist and more. For translated excerpts of the novel The Same Night Awaits Us All: Diary of a Novel, she was awarded a literary translator’s residency at Open Letter Books in New York in conjunction with the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation (EKF); Izidora was also awarded an English PEN grant, and a fellowship at Writers OMI at Ledig House in November 2015, together with the author of the novel, Hristo Karastoyanov. Her translation of the novel, supported by EKF, is forthcoming from Open Letter Books in Spring 2017.