Iana Boukova was born in 1968 in Sofia. She studied Classics at Sofia University. Since 1994 she lives permanently in Greece.
She has published two collections of poetry: Diocletian’s Palaces (1995) and Boat in the Eye (2000), a collection of short stories: A As Anything (2006) and a novel: Journey towards the Shadow (2009).
She works as a translator and editor of poetry and philosophical texts from Modern Greek, Ancient Greek and Latin. She has compiled and translated 10 collections and anthologies of modern Greek poetry. The first Bulgarian editions of Sappho’s all fragments and the collected poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus were published in 2009 in her translation.
She has published in a number of literary and cultural editions in Bulgaria and Greece. In 2006 the Athens publishing house Ikaros published the Greek translation of her book of poetry The Minimal Garden. She is a member of the editors board of FRMK, a biannual journal on poetry, poetics and visual arts.
Her poems and short stories have been published in anthologies and magazines in Albania, Argentina, Chile, Croatia, France, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Mexico, Serbia, Sweden and USA.

email: marabouk[at]otenet.gr

Boukova manages to transfuse Balkan tradition to contemporary expressive means, ,to transform inner experience to extroversive manifestation, comfortably balancing at the border between modern and postmodern. Original in their conception and execution images and a poetic force which subdues sentimentalism, these are poems that any contemporary poet would aspire to write.

Stavros Zafeiriou (poet), Entefktirio journal

The Bulgarian poet Iana Boukova with her book “The minimal garden”, in a very good translation into greek by Dimitris Allos, has easily gained herself a place in contemporary greek poetry, transplanting memory in all things, honoring with affection what is hurt or hunted, being able to look beyond the future into man’s adventure………..

Dino Siotis, (poet), (de)kata journal