Anna Kovatcheva was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and holds an MFA in fiction writing from New York University. Her novella, The White Swallow, was selected by Aimee Bender as the winner of the 2014 Gold Line Press Fiction Chapbook Competition, and was published in 2015. Her stories have previously appeared or are forthcoming in Best American Nonrequired Reading, the Kenyon Review, and the Iowa Review. She lives in New York City, where she works as a graphic designer. In her off hours, Anna writes about Slavic folklore and teenage girls conspiring to murder.
2011 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest
Winter 2012
September
2011 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest Runner-Up They catch sight of each other at four hundred sixty-six miles per hour, or at the speed where four hundred sixty-six suddenly […]
Spring 2015
The Country is Its Birds
Every spring, the birds return to Kokoshevo and clog our chimneys with their nests. They shit on our benches.
Anna Kovatcheva
A micro-interview with Anna Kovatcheva by KR Associate Tim Jurney. Anna Kovatcheva was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She is currently an undergraduate studying Fiction Writing at the University of Virginia. […]