 Iana Boukova was born in 1968 in Sofia where she studied Classical Philology at the Sofia University.She is the author of the poetry books "Diocletian Palaces" (1995), "Boat in the Eye" (2000), "Drapetomania" (2018), "Notes of the Phantom Woman" (2018) as well as the short story collections A as Anything (2006), 4 Tales with no return (2016), and the novel Traveling in the Direction of Shadow (first published by Stigmata, Sofia in 2009 and second, revised edition by Janet 45, Plovdiv in 2014).Boukova is as well the editor and translator into Bulgarian of fifteen literary collections and anthologies of Ancient Greek, Latin and modern Greek poetry, including the, survived Fragments of the great lyric poet Sappho, the Pindar's "Pythian Odes", the poetry of Catullus, the Maximus the Confessor's "Dispute with Pyrrhus", poems by Costas Montis.