Daniela Elza

Daniela Elza was born in Bulgaria, and she grew up in Nigeria. She has a master's degree in English philology from Sofia University and a master's degree in linguistics from Ohio University.

In 1999, she immigrated to Canada and has since lived in Vancouver with her husband and their two children. Elza’s poetry has been published in many periodicals and anthologies, including Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry and 4 poets (both from Mother Tongue Publishing).

In 2011, Elza received her doctorate in philosophy of education from SFU and launched her first ebook, The Book of It. She is currently the Vancouver regional editor for the Pacific Poetry Project's first volume, which is called Alive at the Center. It is an anthology of three cities (Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver) that is forthcoming from Ooligan Press in the fall of 2012.

She is also the Vancouver/Lower Mainland representative for the Federation of BC Writers, and a member of The League of Canadian Poets and The Writers Union of Canada. In 2010, Elza was the recipient of Pandora’s Collective Citizenship Award.