Miglena Dikova-Milanova is a Bulgarian-born scholar and poet based in Belgium. Her work moves across the spaces of literature, philosophy, and cultural thought—where poetic language meets critical inquiry.

She is currently a lecturer in Bulgarian language and culture at Ghent University, where she also co-organizes TAALKRING, a platform for dialogue on Southeast European languages and cultures. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from KU Leuven, where she defended her dissertation on Kant and the Cultural Politics of the Sublime.

Her academic writing often explores literary aesthetics, the sublime, and the intersections of Eastern European literature with broader philosophical traditions. Authors like Mikhail Bulgakov, Leo Tolstoy, Alek Popov, and Georgi Gospodinov weave through her research.

As a poet, she is the author of Будна вода (Wake Water, 1992) and 4(four)2(two)на (2021). Her creative work drifts between languages and forms, often capturing the fragmentary, the intimate, and the metaphysical.

Living in Belgium since the 1990s, she continues to write, teach, and explore the spaces where thought becomes lyric.