Srđan Srdić was born in Kikinda in 1977. He’s written two novels, Mrtvo polje (2010) and Satori (2013), two short-story collections, Espirando (2011) and Sagorevanja (2014), and a book of essays Zapisi iz čitanja (2014). He’s won the following literary awards: Ulaznica (2007), Laza Lazarević (2009), Biljana Jovanović (2012), Edo Budiša (2012), and a scholarship from the Borislav Pekić Fund (2010). Srđan Srdić’s texts and books have been translated into English, German, Ukrainian, Macedonian, Romanian, Slovenian, Albanian and Hungarian. He lives in Mikro-naselje, next to Kikinda.

Dragoljub Stanković was born in Jagodina in 1971. He’s a poet, critic, interviewer, columnist, prose writer, editor.

He’s written for the portal E-novine, the feuilleton Beton, the newspaper Danas, for a number of literary magazines, and for the Radio Belgrade Third Channel.

He’s written three books of poetry: Pesme jednog dana (KOV, 2005), Barka tela (KOV, 2010) and S onu stranu noći (Levo krilo, 2014).

He lives in Belgrade.

He was born in Bihać (SFRY) in 1970. He’s written the following books: Pjesme u nastajanju (2000), Hit depo (2003), Pod pritiskom (2004), Transsarajevo (2006), Hit depo, Pod pritiskom, Transsarajevo, Apokalipsa iz Recycle bina (2007), Knjiga o Uni (2011) and Moje rijeke (2014). Literary critics often call him the leader of the “run-over generation.” His books Hit depo and Pod pritiskom enjoy the cult status among his readers.

For the novel Knjiga o Uni he was awarded the Meša Selimović for the best novel published in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro in 2011, and the European Union Prize for Literature – EUPL in 2013. For the book of poetry Moje rijeke he won the Risto Ratković Award for the best published book of poetry in Ser Risto Ratković bia, B&H, Croatia and Montenegro for the years 2013/2014. His books have been translated into Macedonian, Bulgarian, German, English and French. He works as a journalist and columnist for the Sarajevo magazine BH Dani. He lives in Sarajevo.

Dušan Vasiljev, one of the greatest Serbian expressionists, was born on 19th July 1900 in Great Kikinda. In 1918 he fought in the Italian front. He returned from the war with his health seriously impaired. Dušan Vasiljev’s poems were published in a number of prestigious magazines and anthologies. In his lifetime, Vasiljev wrote about three hundred poems, a few dramatic texts and short stories, and he also started writing a novel. His first book, selected poems, was published posthumously. He died in Kikinda on 27th March 1924.

Dušan Vejnović (Sombor, 1981) is a writer, translator and psychologist. He’s written the short story collection Tvrdoglave beline (2011, the Đura Đukanov Prize), the book of poetry Posebne potrebe (2013) and the novel Jako i nikome (2014). He’s translated Roberto Bolaño’s novel Amulet (2015, the Radoje Tatić Prize). He lives in Novi Sad.

Ana Vučković (married surname: Denčić) was born in Belgrade on November 16, 1984. She completed her studies of dramatugy and obtained her Master's degree in filmology at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade.
She works as a Radio Belgrade 2 journalist and a columnist for City Magazine and the nova.rs portal. She has published five books so far Epoha lipsa juče (An Epoch Croaked Yesterday) (2003), Lust 'n' Dust (2004), Plišani soliter (A plush tower block) (2007), Surfing Serbia (2012) and Yugoslav (2019).
Her short stories were published in the collections Krik! (The Shriek) and Kraljica Lir i njena deca (Queen Lear and Her Children) (2017). Her poems were published in Volume 33 of the Rukopisi (Manuscripts) anthology of poetry from the former Yugoslavia in 2010. She is the recipient of the Elle Style Award for Literature for the year 2020.