Iana Boukova is a poet, writer and translator. She is the author of two books of poetry, a collection of short stories, A as in Anything (2006), and a novel, Journey along the Shadow (2009, ІІ edition 2014). She has a degree in classics and has published Bulgarian translations of Sappho, Catullus, and Pindar, as well as more than 10 books of modern Greek poetry. Poems and short stories by Boukova have been translated into English, Greek, Spanish, French, and several other languages.