Dejan Stojiljković was born in 1976 in Niš. His interests include comic books, journalism and writing prose. He published a collection of urban stories Leva strana druma (Left Side of the Road, 2007) and a collection of stories inspired by the myths and legends of rock-n-roll entitled Low Life (2008). He is the author of several comic book scenarios. The drama program of Radio Belgrade adapted his novella Lopuže poput nas (Thieves Like Us) into a radio drama which premiered in November, 2008. He is the first laureate of the "Nikola Mitrović Kokan" Award for Comic Book Theory. He is a regular contributor to the zine for popular culture PopBox, and he also writes for Danas, Urban Bug, Think Tank, Gradina, Ulaznica, Treći trg... He is the creative mind behind and one of the founders of Trash Fešta, a festival of underground literature which is held in Niš.
He lives in Niš where he works as the editor-in-chief of "Pressing" magazine and the informative internet portal NišKafe.
