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...