Ekaterina Petrova Yosifova

• Name — Ekaterina Petrova Yosifova • Born — 4 June 1941 • Birthplace — Kyustendil, Kingdom of Bulgaria • Died — 13 August 2022 • Education — University of Sofia • Genres — Poetry, journalism

Yosifova was born in Kyustendil and studied Russian language at the University of Sofia. Yosifova was employed as a high school teacher in Kyustendil and then later as a newspaper editor. She published Kuso putuvane ('Brief Journey') in 1969 and Noshtem ide vyatur ('The Wind Comes at Night') in 1972. Yosifova became editor-in-chief for Struma, a literary magazine.

• 1969 – Kuso patuvane ('Short Travel') • 1972 – Noshtem ide vyatar (The Wind Comes at Night') • 1978 – Posveshtenie ('Dedication') • 1983 – Kushta v poleto ('House in the Field') • 1987 – Imena ('Names') • 1993 – Podozrenia ('Suspicions') • 1994 – Nenuzhno povedenie ('Useless Conduct') • 1998 – Malko stihotvorenia ('Few Poems') • 2001 – Nishto novo (100 stihotvorenia) ('Nothing New: 100 Poems') • 2004 – Nagore nadolu ('Up and Down') • 2006 – Ratse ('Hands') • 2010 – Tazi zmiya ('This Snake') • 2014 – Tunka knizhka ('Slim Booklet')

Her work, translated into English, has appeared in the anthologies: • Windows on the Black Sea (1992) • Clay and Star (1992) • The Manyvoiced Wave: Contemporary Women Poets of Bulgaria, Translators Tsvetelina Ganeva; Richard Scorza, Samkaleen Prakashan, 1999, • An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (1994)