Tsvetanka Elenkova (1968–2023) was born in Sofia. She published six poetry collections and two books of essays in Bulgarian, and her work has been translated into twelve languages. Three of her poetry collections have been published in English by Shearsman Books, the last of which was Magnification Forty (2023), published just two weeks before the author's death. An anthology of contemporary Bulgarian poetry, edited by Tsvetanka Elenkova, was also published by Shearsman in 2012.