Angela Rodel is a literary translator living in Bulgaria. She received a 2014 NEA translation grant for Georgi Gospodinov’s novel The Physics of Sorrow (Open Letter 2015). The novel was also short-listed for the 2016 Pen Translation Award. Six novels in her translation have been published by US and UK publishers. Her translations have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies, including McSweeney’s, Little Star, Granta.org, Two Lines, The White Review, and Words Without Borders.