Tsvetanka Elenkova was born in Sofia in 1968. She has published three poetry collections - The Stakes of the Legion (1995), Amphipolis of the Nine Roads (1998) and The Seventh Gesture (2005) - and a book of essays on the Balkans, Time and Relation (2007). Her work has been translated into 12 languages. She is also a critic and has edited the literary magazine Ah Maria, the socio-cultural magazine Europe 2001 and the Greek literary magazine Helios. She translates from English, Greek and Macedonian. She is the Bulgarian Writers Association's representative at the International Writers and Translators Centre of Rhodes. She also co-directs the publishing house Small Stations Press.