She holds a degree in Romanian literature. She first took part in a poetry competition when she was 15, and published her first book of poems together with Boris Čavkoski when she was 21. The book won her a poetry debut prize. In an interview with Southeast-Europe: People and Culture, Dimkovska recalls her beginnings as a poet, when her mother brought back from work a written off typewriter. She named this typewriter Ljubica and used it to type out the poems she always writes by hand. read on