Yanita Georgieva is a Bulgarian poet, facilitator, and journalist. She was raised in Lebanon and now lives in London. Her debut pamphlet, Small Undetectable Thefts, was published by Broken Sleep Books and received the 2024 Eric Gregory Award. She is the recipient of an Out-Spoken Prize and has been shortlisted for awards including the Ivan Juritz Prize, the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, the Free Verse Prize, and the Cúirt New Writing Prize.
Yanita’s practice spans page and video poetry, collaborative performance, and erasure poetry. Her work has appeared in international literary magazines including The London Magazine, Poetry London, Poetry Wales, and Waxwing. She is an alumna of the Southbank New Poets Collective and the London Library Emerging Writers Programme, and she leads the international poetry collective Dreamboat.
Alongside her creative work, she designs and delivers writing workshops for The Poetry School, the Southbank Centre, and Stanza. She has also taught digital journalism as an associate lecturer at institutions including the University of the Arts London, the Danish School of Media and Journalism, and others. She is particularly interested in translation, painting, and humour as an amplifier of tragedy.