Josip Kocev was born 1985 in Skopje. He graduated from the Law Faculty at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University. He wrote the poetry books I, Quentin Scribbler (2015), Written Silence (2016), Now is the longest never (2018). He won the Еnhalon award for best poem at the Struga Poetry Evenings 2017. His poetry was published in several Macedonian literary magazines and in the German poetry network Fixpoetry.