Ekaterina Petrova Yosifova (; 4 June 1941 – 13 August 2022)Отиде си поетесата Екатерина Йосифова was a Bulgarian educator, journalist and poet.
Life Yosifova was born in Kyustendil and studied Russian language at the University of Sofia. Yosifova was employed as a high school teacher in Kyustendil and then later as a newspaper editor.
She published Kuso putuvane ('Brief Journey') in 1969 and Noshtem ide vyatur ('The Wind Comes at Night') in 1972. Yosifova became editor-in-chief for Struma, a literary magazine.
Awards Yosifova received the .
Works 1969 – Kuso patuvane ('Short Travel') 1972 – Noshtem ide vyatar (The Wind Comes at Night') 1978 – Posveshtenie ('Dedication') 1983 – Kushta v poleto ('House in the Field') 1987 – Imena ('Names') 1993 – Podozrenia ('Suspicions') 1994 – Nenuzhno povedenie ('Useless Conduct') 1998 – Malko stihotvorenia ('Few Poems') 2001 – Nishto novo (100 stihotvorenia) ('Nothing New: 100 Poems') 2004 – Nagore nadolu ('Up and Down') 2006 – Ratse ('Hands') 2010 – Tazi zmiya ('This Snake') 2014 – Tunka knizhka ('Slim Booklet')
Works translated to English Her work, translated into English, has appeared in the anthologies: Windows on the Black Sea (1992) Clay and Star (1992) The Manyvoiced Wave: Contemporary Women Poets of Bulgaria, Translators Tsvetelina Ganeva; Richard Scorza, Samkaleen Prakashan, 1999, An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (1994)
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