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Nikolai Kanchev is the author of more than ten books of poems, as well as a renowned Bulgarian translator of French and English poetry. (updated 1993)

Lisa Sapinkopf’s translations have appeared in Boston Review, Partisan Review, Southern Review, AGNI, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She won the Columbia Translation Center award and has read her work at the United Nations. (updated 1991)

Georgi Belev is a Bulgarian poet and the editor of the anthology Clay and Star: Contemporary Bulgarian Poets, published by Milkweed Editions in 1992. (updated 7/2010)