Silvia Choleva was born in Sofia in 1959. She is the author of s ix poetry collections (The Child of the Deaf-Mutes, 1993; Entrance, 1996; Carefully, 2001; Postcards, 2007; Letters, 2007; From the Sky to the Earth, 2015), three plays (Come, Lie on Top of Me, The Name, Your Name, and Emergency Exit), two books of prose fragments (Journeys There and Back, 1997; Winters and Summers, 2001), a novel (Green and Gold, 2010), and a collection of short stories (Goshko, 2013). A book of her new and selected poetry, titled Тhe Unexpected Answer, was published in English in 2025. Her work has been translated into Greek, Serbian, Czech, Lithuanian, Turkish, French, and Norwegian. She is the recipient of several national awards, including the Ivan Nikolov poetry prize, the Golden Age badge of honor for contributions to Bulgarian culture, and the Hristo G. Danov award for her work as a journalist. She was the editor of two landmark literary magazines, Season and altera. She has been a staff presenter for Bulgarian National Radio for the last twenty years, hosting the Artefir literature and culture program. In 2012, she founded Da Poetry Publishing with Iglika Vassileva and Kaloyan Ignatovski.
