Award-winning Bulgarian poet Gueorgui Konstantinov graduated from the University of Sofia in 1967 and has been employed as an editor for Bulgarian television and Rodna Rech Literary Magazine, and as director of the publishing house Plamak. Formerly the President of the Bulgarian Center of P.E.N. International, he has also served Bulgaria as a Member of Parliament in the Fourth Great National Assembly, and as Deputy Minister of Culture. The author of thirty-five books of poetry, his poems have been widely anthologized and translated into a dozen languages. He has participated in many literary festivals worldwide, and currently lives in Sofia, Bulgaria. His website (in English) is slovo.bg/old/f/en/gk/.