[1] Between 1910 and 1911 she taught in the village of Aftani, where she experienced rural life, after which she studied Slavic philology at Sofia University.

Her first poems — Why (Защо) and Night Song (Вечерна песен) — were published in 1915 in the magazine Contemporary Thought (Съвременна мисъл).

By 1921, she was already active in the literary life, and was collaborating on the Newspaper of the Woman (Вестник на жената) and the magazine Modernity (Съвременник), among other publications.

Her poems are straightforward, sensitive and serious, as in The Well (Кладенецът), a fable-like piece relating a well she dug when a little girl to the wellspring of poetry in her soul.

[3] Bagryana was a friend of communist activist Pétar Russév, father of Brazilian politician Dilma Rousseff, who won election as Brazil's first female President on 31 October 2010.