Bissera Videnova

Bissera Videnova is a Bulgarian-born New York-based poet, writer, editor, and translator in her native tongue.
Her documentary photography focuses on the consequences of the communist regime, the people's emotional wounds, and pain empathy.

She participated in Sofia, Venice, Tampa, New York, and Trieste group shows. Bissera won Winner Silver for Strive for Freedom (PX3 Paris 2022), Winner Bronze for photobook The Speed of My Life (BIFA 2020), Honorable mention for Strive for Freedom (BIFA 2020); finalist at URBAN Trieste (2022), Belfast Photo Awards (2022), Siena Photo Awards (2020,2021); shortlisted BECA 2021; in the Official Selection of TIFA 2021 for Strive for Freedom.
Magnum Mentee 2023-2024.
Published photographs in Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine.

As a poet, she has published a collection of poems in her country (2017), many translated and published lyrics in English, French, Italian, Korean, and Romanian; Holds a prize for prose from a competition in France (2012); participates in poetry readings at the Poetry House in New York and the Yale Royal Poetry Club in Manhattan (2014-2019); published poetry in American Writers Review (2021 and 2022).