She studied at a German language school in Sofia and graduated in Bulgarian and Russian Philology at the Plovdiv University.
Mirela Ivanova writes essays, reviews on fiction and theatre performances, deals with literature history, and translates from the German language. She is an author of scenarios for documentary films. In 1994 she translated and published an anthology of modern German poetry, titled The Wandering of Stones. She has also translated German works of Sarah Kirsch, Elke Erb, Gregor Laschen, Ernest Wicher, Durs Grünbein, Uwe Kolbe, as well as Ernst Gombrich's popular work History of Mankind for Young Readers. Ivanova's poems have been translated into various languages.[2]
