Ekaterina Petrova Yosifova

Ekaterina Petrova Yosifova (Bulgarian: Екатерина Петрова Йосифова) (born June 4, 1941) is a Bulgarian educator, journalist and poet.

She was born in Kyustendil and studied Russian 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.

She has received the Ivan Nikolov Award (bg).

• 1969 – Kuso patuvane (Short travel)
• 1972 – Noshtem ide vyatar (Wind is coming 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, ISBN 9788170831532
• An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (1994)

• Miller, Jane Eldridge (2001). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. pp. 354–55. ISBN 0415159806.