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Since 2007, Elenkova has been editorial director of the publishing house Small
Stations Press, which publishes literature in the original language and in translation in both English and Bulgarian. In 2018, she completed a master's degree in Theology at
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Elenkova's poetry is in “that point of the Spirit, in the epicenter of the creative earthquake, where the surrealists found that opposites merge, where what is said and felt contradicts.”; Carlos Olivares writes in
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541:(Gokcenur. C., A Monument to the Impossibility of Utterance), (co-translation with Lyudmila Mindova), poetry, Sofia: Small Stations Press, 2016, 93 p. ISBN 978-954-384-048-9
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513:(Bogomil Gjuzel, Island in Land), (co-translation with Dimitar Hristov), poetry, Sofia: Balkani, 2010, 310 p. ISBN 978-954-944-674-6
492:(Jonathan Dunne, Even Though That). (co-translation with Rada Panchovska), poetry, Sofia: Proxima-RP, 2004, 79 p. ISBN 954-90660-7-X
472:(Wounds of Freedom, selection from The Seventh Gesture). Translated by Velemir Kostov, Kraljevo: Povelja, 2009, 33 p. ISSN 1452-3531
534:(Manuel Rivas, The Disappearance of Snow and Other Poems), poetry, Sofia: Small Stations Press, 2015, 166 p. ISBN 978-954-384-043-4
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454:. Bilingual edition. Translated by Reynol Pérez Vázquez, Madrid: Vaso Roto, 2021, 189 p. ISBN 978-84-123598-0-0
527:(Rosalía de Castro, Galician Songs), poetry, Sofia: Small Stations Press, 2014, 182 p. ISBN 978-954-384-026-7
405:. Translated by Jonathan Dunne, Second Edition. Bristol: Shearsman Books, 2019, 77 p. ISBN 978-1-84861-686-8
520:(Lois Pereiro, Collected Poems), poetry, Sofia: Small Stations Press, 2013, 201 p. ISBN 978-954-384-020-5.
555:(Rosalia de Castro, New Leaves), poetry, Sofia: Small Stations Press, 2017, 278 p. ISBN 978-954-384-078-6
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562:(Fiona Sampson, Coleshill), poetry, Sofia: Small Stations Press, 2019, 67 p. ISBN 978-954-384-097-7
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485:(Speaking of Siva): Medieval Indian poets, poetry, Sofia: АБ, 2000, 121 p. ISBN 954-9885-97-6
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386:. Translated by Jonathan Dunne, Bristol: Shearsman Books, 2010, 89 p. ISBN 978-1-84861-084-2
363:(Bulgarian Frescoes: Feast of the Root), Sofia: Omophor, 2013, 118 p. ISBN 978-954-2972-13-6
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