Slavica Gadzova Sviderska (1984, Bitola, North Macedonia) is a poet, researcher, literary translator, doctor of philology sciences. She is an author of the poetry books Infinity (2001), Letters (2012), Politics of Love (2015), Bodies (2016), as well the studies Literature and the discourses of power (2013) and Sense and absurdity (2017) and Literature and political violence (2018). She researches the discoursers of power and the political violence in literature. In 2012 she was awarded with “Enhalon” prize at the Struga Poetry Evenings. In 2016 she won the prize “Karamanov” for the poetry book Bodies. Her poetry is published in several anthologies of the contemporary Macedonian poetry and translated into: English, Chinese, Italian, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Albanian. She is founder and editor of the publishing house Vostok. She is a member of Writers' Association of North Macedonia.