Olya Stoyanova is a poet, writer and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. She is interested in the relationship between poetry and science, nonfiction writing and social problems, dramaturgy and women's point of view. Olya is the author of five poetry collections, a novel, two short story collections and three nonfiction books. Her last poetry book, Happiness Street, won two national awards for the best poetry book of the year 2013: the Ivan Nikolov award and the Nikolay Kunchev award. She won the National Askeer Award for the Best Dramatic Text of the Year twice, in 2014 and 2018, for the plays Invitation to Dinner and The Color of Deep Waters. Her plays Invitation to Dinner (Sofia Theatre, 2014), The Color of Deep Waters (Ivan Vazov National Theatre, 2017), and Fear of Taming (Ivan Vazov National Theatre, 2020) are currently on stage.
Olya Stoyanova is the Editor in Chief at Bulgarian National Radio Network's Hristo Botev Channel for Culture, Science and Education, and a Lecturer in the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication at Sofia University.
