Dženana Vucic

Dženana Vucic is a Bosnian-Australian writer, poet and essayist. She is a contributor to Australian literary journals including Cordite Poetry Review, Kill Your Darlings, Overland, the Australian Multilingual Writing Project, Rabbit Poetry, Meanjin, Red Room Poetry and Sydney Review of Books. Vucic has lived in Glasgow, Berlin, Konjic and Melbourne.

Early life Vucic was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina to a Bosniak family. She has written extensively about her experiences with her family around this time, particularly regarding switching from speaking Bosnian to English after migrating to Australia.

Career She was selected for Kill Your Darlings' New Critic Program in 2023. , she is the reviews editor at Cordite Poetry Review. She received the 2025 Red Room Fellowship. Her first poetry collection, after war, was released in 2026. She is the fiction editor at SAND.

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