Kapka Kassabova started her Writing on the Wall international residency in December 2005. She spent time researching and visiting Newcastle, Birdsowald and Morseby, where Southern Bulgarian Auxiliaries were originally stationed so that her writing is informed by the historical and modern elements of the Hadrian’s Wall defenses.

Kapka Kassabova is a poet, travel writer, novelist, and professionally displaced person. She was born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria. Since 1990 she has lived in England, France, Germany and New Zealand. She currently lives in Edinburgh.

In 1998 she won the New Zealand Society of Authors Award for the Best First Book of Poetry for her collection All Roads Lead to the Sea (1997) and published her second collection, Dismemberment, both books from Auckland University Press. Someone Else's Life (Bloodaxe, 2003) was her first UK poetry book, including both new poems and work from her two New Zealand collections.

More information is available at www.kapka-kassabova.com

Roman Whore Blues

Request for leave: a brief history of Empire

The past and future of Aurelius Marcus

Letter from Claudia Severa to Sulpicia Lepidina

Farewell I Wish That You Are Very Happy