Annie Dancheva was born in 1989 in Sofia, Bulgaria. She graduated with degrees in English and American Studies and Translation and Editing from Sofia University with Spanish and Italian as second and third foreign languages. She was briefly a Professor in English at the Faculty of Medicine at Sofia University. Annie has translated Upside-Down, Dream Wildly, How to Overcome Fears and Doubts for the Sake of Success, and several short stories and non-fiction texts from and into Bulgarian.