Dessi Nikko is an award-winning novelist and filmmaker from Eastern Europe. Born in 1986 in Bulgaria, she navigated the challenges of a post-socialism society to become a cosmopolitan rebel girl in the end. Dessi is interested in psychological fiction, dark humor, satire, and all art that’s quirky, urban, audacious. She earned her BA with a thesis entitled “Graffiti and PR,” and her MA in Film Directing with a poignant short film about school bullying that raised quite a controversy in Bulgaria. Dessi knew she was to become a writer as soon as she learned how to write. Meanwhile, she worked as a lifeguard, an English teacher, a lifestyle magazine editor and a waitress. In that order. She is positive that these occupations were good psychological training for her craft. Based on her own experiences and encounters, Dessi Nikko’s semi-autobiographical fiction is so honest that readers of her debut novel “Alice on a Friday Night” are known to have googled the author to check if she was doing OK. She certainly is!