Poet Profile

Gergana Lyubenova Yaninska

Gergana Yaninska is a midwife from Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She has been writing haiku for several years and her work has appeared in A Hundred Gourds, Cattails, Bones, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Ershik, Mainichi Daily News, the World Haiku Association Haiga Contest (with selections and awards by Kuniharu Shimizu), and other haiku publications.

Awards and Other Honors: Gergana was selected to the European Top 100 Most Creative Haiku Authors in 2014.

sleepless night
my neighbor's baby
with one more tooth

taste of cranberries
I read poems
in foreign language

dog days...
my son paints
red suns

warm winter
cobwebs on the sleigh
in the cellar

winter morning
shadows of cats
around the bakery

Christmas
another set of diapers
in the laundry

Credits: "sleepless night" - The Mainichi [Selected by Isamu Hashimoto] (January 3, 2015); "dog days" - Brass Bell: a haiku journal (August 2014); "winter morning" - A Hundred Gourds 4:3 (2015); "taste of cranberries" - A Hundred Gourds 4:2 (2015); "warm winter" - A Hundred Gourds 3:4 (2014); "Christmas" - Modern Haiku 46:2 (2015).