Yanislava Shikova

Yanislava Shikova is a 16-year-old poet from Bulgaria. Her engagement with literature and the written word began early, and she wrote her first poem at the age of thirteen. Since then, poetry has become an essential part of her everyday life and a primary way of exploring herself and the world around her.

 

She writes across a wide emotional register, moving between what she describes as the beautiful, the sad, the dangerous, and the small. Rather than centering her work on a single theme, Yanislava is interested in the shifting textures of human experience and the quiet intensity of personal moments. This openness allows her writing to remain exploratory and intuitive, shaped by curiosity rather than fixed ideas.