Lidija Deduš was born in 1977 in Banja Luka and grew up in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her poetry and short prose were published in literary journals from all over the former Yugoslavia and translated into English. In 2018 she won the prize for best debut poetry collection at literary competition initiated by the publishing house Treći trg from Belgrade, Serbia, and her first poetry collection „Apatridi i ostale čudne ličnosti“ was published in May 2018. She lives in Varaždin, Croatia.