Rumena Bužarovska (1981, Skopje) has written four short collections of short stories: Žvrljotine (Scribbles, 2006), Osmica (Eight, 2010), Moj muž (My Husband, 2014) i  Nikamo ne idem (Going Nowhere, 2018), studies of humour in contemporary Macedonian and American short story O smiješnom: Teorije humora kroz prizmu kratke priče (About Funny: Humour Theoury through the Lens of Short Story, 2012) and mini-fiction booklet Spavaj (Sleep, 2017). Her short story collection have been translated and published in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Slovenia, Italy, Hungary and USA.

In 2016 she was named among ten most interesting young European writers by Literary Europe Live, a platform under Literature Across Frontiers. Her book Moj muž was awarded the “Edo Budiša” award for best short story collection in 2017.

Bužarovska was an International literary programme scholar at the University of Iowa in 2018. She is a literary translator from English to Macedonian (Lewis Carroll, Truman Capote and John M. Coetzee) and professor of American literature at the University of Skopje. She is co-organizer and co-author of women’s storytelling event PeachPreach.