Nataliya Deleva is a Bulgarian author born in Sliven in 1978. She is the curator and editor of the children’s book Once Upon a Time, a collection of bedtime stories by seventeen bloggers and illustrations by their children—published in aid of Safe the Children, UK. Invisible (Dreaming Up a Mom)/ Невидими is her first novel (2017), which received the prestigious literary award Peroto for Best Debut Novel in 2018, was shortlisted for Novel of the Year 2018 (13 Century Bulgaria), and got an honorable mention for Best Debut Novel at 2018 Juzhna Prolet Awards, a Bulgarian national literary competition.