Iana Boukova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1968. She is the author of two short-story collections and five books of poetry, most recently Black Haiku. Her poetry collection Notes of the Phantom Woman, which received the prestigious Ivan Nikolov National Poetry Award, was published in English by Ugly Duckling Presse. Boukova has a degree in classics and has translated into Buglarian Sappho's fragments, the collected poetry of Catullus, and Pindar's Pythian Odes. She lives between Sofia and Athens.

Ekaterina Petrova holds an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of lowa, where she was awarded the lowa Arts Fellowship. Her writings and translations have appeared in Asymptote, Words Without Borders, Modern Poetry in Translation, EuropeNow, Reading in Translation, European Literature Network, Exchanges, and elsewhere. Her translation of lana Boukovas Notes of the Phantom Woman (co-translated with John O'Kane from the Greek) was published in 2024. She lives in Sofia.