Lidija Dimkovska is a multi-award-winning Macedonian author. She has published six books of poetry, three novels, one American diary and one short story collection translated in numerous languages. In English, her first collection of poetry Do Not Awaken Them with Hammers was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2006; her second collection pH Neutral History (shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award 2013) was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2012, and in 2016 Two Lines Press published her novel A Spare Life (longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award 2017). She has also edited an anthology of young Macedonian poetry, an anthology of contemporary Slovenian poetry in Macedonian, and an anthology of contemporary minority and immigrant writing in Slovenia. She lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia.