Tsvetanka Elenkova

In 2019, Elenkova received the prestigious award Pencho's Oak from the Bulgarian critic Svetlozar Igov for the body of her work. In 2022 she received English PEN Award for her book Magnification Forty.

Since 2007, Elenkova has been editorial director of the publishing house Small Stations Press, which publishes literature in the original language and in translation in both English and Bulgarian. In 2018, she completed a master's degree in Theology at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, where she is currently a doctoral student with a thesis on the poetry of Gregory of Nazianzus.

Tsvetanka Elenkova (Bulgarian: Цветанка Еленкова; born 1968) is a Bulgarian poet, essayist, editor and translator. She is editorial director of the publishing house Small Stations Press, which publishes in both English and Bulgarian. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has appeared in magazines like Poetry Review and The Massachusetts Review. English, French, Spanish and Serbian editions of her works are available.

Born in Sofia in 1968, Elenkova attended Russian-language school and graduated in economics from the University of National and World Economy. She worked as a journalist for Nova Television and was on the editorial board of the magazines Ah, Maria, the first private literary magazine after the fall of communism, and Helios, the magazine of the International Writers and Translators Centre of Rhodes, for which she was the Association of Bulgarian Writers’ representative. She was editor-in-chief of the magazine Europe 2001, a socio-cultural magazine with issues dedicated to countries from all around the world.