Ivan Landzev, born in 1986, is as a poet, screenwriter and university lecturer in his native Bulgaria. He received his doctorate in Russian Literature from the University of Sv. Kliment Ohridski in Sofia and has already won several awards for various poetry competitions. His poems have been translated into several languages, including English, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian and Arabic.
He has also participated in numerous international scientific conferences, reading and festivals that have taken him across USA, Russia, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Hungary, Latvia and Slovakia.