Yanita Georgieva

Yanita Georgieva is a Bulgarian poet and journalist. She was raised in Beirut, Lebanon, and now lives in London, where she works for the BBC World Service. She is currently completing an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway University.

Georgieva received the Out-Spoken Prize for Poetry in 2022 and was shortlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize. Her work has appeared in Poetry Wales, Propel Magazine, The Cardiff Review, bath magg, and Pidgeonholes, among others. She leads a poets’ collective called Dreamboat and has performed at the European Poetry Festival.