Anna Kovatcheva was born in Bulgaria and holds an MFA in fiction from New York University. Her chapbook, The White Swallow, was selected by Aimee Bender as the winner of the Goldline Press Chapbook Competition and published in 2015. Her short fiction has been anthologized in Best American Nonrequired Reading, and has appeared in The Kenyon Review and The Iowa Review. In 2023, she completed her first novel while in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.