Dijana Petrova was born on April 8th 1992 in Delchevo. She graduated from the Department of Macedonian literature and South Slavic literature at “St Cyril and Methodius” University in Skopje. Her debut book “The Wake over Oneself” (Nov Vavilon) came out in 2019. In 2020 she published her collection of short stories “Don’t cast Shadow on Graves” (Antolog). She lives and works in Skopje.