Izidora Angel is a Bulgarian-born memoirist and literary translator based in Chicago. Her writing has appeared in A Public Space, Astra Magazine, Best Literary Translations 2024, Chicago Reader, and elsewhere. She’s been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, ART OMI, the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation and Bread Loaf, among others. Izidora’s translation of She Who Remains by Rene Karabash, forthcoming in early 2026, received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant and won the Gulf Coast Prize in Translation. Izidora is at work on a memoir, an excerpt from which is featured in the Autumn issue of The American Scholar.