Kapka Kassabova, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, is an internationally published poet and the author of two previous novels, Reconnaissance and Love in the Time of Midas. She also writes for a number of New Zealand and international newspapers and magazines. Kassabova has been short-listed for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards and the recipient of the NZ Cathay Pacific Travel Writer of the Year award and Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Best First Book, South East Asia & South Pacific Region). Her memoir, Street Without a Name, was published in 2008.
