Petro Mykolayovych Midyanka[a] (born 14 May 1959), also known by his pen name Ropet Kamidyan,[1] is a Ukrainian poet and teacher who became the a member of the National Writers' Union of Ukraine since 1994.

He has spent almost his whole life, or more than 30 years, as a member of current Ukrainian literature, and he has never been overlooked for the highest literary accolades or the interest of readers and critics.

[3][2] Midyanka received his secondary education in Khust, and later obtained his degree from Uzhhorod National University's Faculty of Philology.

[4] Following his graduation from university in 1982, he goes back to his hometown and starts teaching in the nearby town of Novoselytsia, then Tysolovo in Tiachiv Raion.

He continued to create even in the turbulent 1990s, when censorship vanished and with it governmental backing for the book and publishing business after the fall of the Soviet Union.