Born in Sofia in 1974, Milena grew up in Bulgaria, Germany and Switzerland. She studied American and Scandinavian literature and Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin and has lived in Berlin since 1995. Between 1996 and 2000 she was an art correspondent for the magazine Flash Art. After that she undertook several film projects as a producer and worked as a lecturer, giving film seminars at the Northern Europe Institute at the Humboldt University. She has been working as a freelance author, editor and translator since 2015.

Her first book. Schrödinger's Cat, is a subatomic love story, beautifully illustrated and published in German by eta Verlag. This work was originally translated into Bulgarian and published by Rhizome in Sofia (2016) under the title: Котката на ШрьодингЕР - субатомен памфлет в реално време