Aleksandra Jurkovska

(1981) is a journalist, literary critic and essay writer. She is the author of the book "Weaving the Text" – a collection of critical literary texts about contemporary Macedonian authors. She has been working as a journalist in several media in Macedonia since 2001. For eight years, she was a literary critic in the daily newspaper "Dnevnik", while her theoretical and essayist texts were published in several professional magazines and portals in Macedonia and beyond. She actively participates in symposiums and gatherings for literary and cultural topics. She is the editor of the site cooltura.mk since 2012 and a host of live contact TV show at the ALFA TV, a national television in Macedonia.

On two occasions she was the head of the Press Center of the Struga Poetry Evenings and moderator of Poetic Cafes and Versopolis Portraits.