Katya Antonova was born in Sofia in 1982. She has written throughout her professional life. In 2013, together with Milen Antiohov and Evgenia Nikolova, she founded the publishing house Ribka – an alternative publishing house for children’s books for that time. Thanks to Ribka, books appeared in Bulgaria by some of the most talented contemporary authors in the world: Oliver Jeffers, Rébecca Dautremer, Jon Klassen, and others.
In addition to publishing, Katya Antonova is the author of some of the most beloved contemporary children’s books: The Fairy of the Sugar Bowl, The Two Kingdoms, Princess Stories, Fish, and others.