Katia Mitova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and lived there and in Poland until 1993 when she moved to the United States. She has taught literature and philosophy at the University of Sofia (Bulgaria) and at Columbia College, Roosevelt University, and the University of Chicago (Chicago). After the fall of communism in 1989, she was the Editor of the Bulgarian quarterly for foreign literature, Panorama, and a correspondent for the Polish Section of Radio Free Europe. She has translated widely from Polish and English into Bulgarian, including poetry by Czeslaw Milosz and Mark Strand, and philosophy by Leszek Kolakowski. She has published short stories, literary criticism, and a chapbook, The Human Shell (1994), in Bulgarian. Since 1999 Katia Mitova has been writing in English.

---