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 was presented by San Francisco Art Fair 2024, participated through group shows in Sofia, Venice, Tampa, New York, Trieste; Bissera won Silver/book 2022 PX3; Winner Bronze for photo-book The Speed of My Life (BIFA 2020); Honorable mention for Strive for Freedom (BIFA 2020); finalist at Siena Photo Awards (2020,2021); shortlisted BECA 2021; in the Official selection of TIFA 2021 for Strive for Freedom;
published photographs in Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine and Visura.
Magnum mentee 2022-2025.

As a poet, she has published a collection of poems in her country (2017), many translated and published lyrics in English, French, Italian, Korean, Romanian; Holds a prize for prose from the 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 American Writers Review 2021 and 2022.