Born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1973, Kapka Kassabova lived there until she was 17, moving to New Zealand with her family in 1992.

Already a published poet as a school student in Bulgaria, Kapka began writing in English at the age of 19 and has since published two collections of poetry as well as two novels.

She won the 1998 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Best First Book of Poetry for All Roads Lead to the Sea and the 2000 Commonwealth Writers Prize in the SE Asia and South Pacific region in the Best First Book Category for her novel Reconnaissance. She was also a Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellow in 1999. She has published Dismemberment, a second collection of poetry, and, in 2000, a second novel, Love in the Land of Midas.

• http://www.meghdutam.com/auth.php
  (interview with her)
• http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/kassabova.htm
• http://www.nzbooks.com/nzbooks/author.asp?author_id=kapkakassabova