Yana Ellis

Yana Ellis is a literary translator from Bulgarian and German into English. She was shortlisted for the 2022 John Dryden Translation Competition and in the same year was awarded an American Literary Translators Association Travel Fellowship. Her work has appeared in JoLT, The Common, SAND, Trafika Europe, Turkoslavia, and WWB. Her first book-length title, The Wolves of Staro Selo by Zdravka Evtimova (Héloïse Press, 2025), recipient of a PEN Translates Award, was shortlisted for the TA First Translation Prize.