Angela Rodel is a literary translator. In 1996 she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study Bulgarian at Sofia University. She returned to Bulgaria on a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship in 2004 and now lives in Sofia. In 2010, she received a translation grant from the American PEN forย Holy Light, a collection of stories by Georgi Tenev. In February of 2015, Ms. Rodel was appointed the Executive Director of the Bulgarian-American Commission for Educational Exchange, or Bulgarian Fulbright Commission.