Biljana D. Obradovic

Biljana D. Obradović, a Serbian-American poet, translator, critic, Professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans, has published four collections of poems, Le Riche Monde (1999), Frozen Embraces (2001, won the Rastko Petrović award), Incognito (WordTech Press, 2017) and Little Disruptions (Serbia 2012, WordTech Press 2022); translations of collections of poems into English (B. Milanović, Zvonko Karanović); into Serbian (J. Gery, S. Kunitz, P. de Rachewiltz, B. Weigl. Osundare); two anthologies of poems, the most recent, co-edited with Dubravka Djurić, Cat Painters: An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Poetry (Dialogos Press, 2016; Misha Djordjević Award, 2019); and she co-edited/translated a Serbian poetry issue of Atlanta Review (2021). She also edited a collection of essays by Philip Dacey, Heavenly Muse: Essays on Poetry (Dialogos Press, 2020). Her newest translation is: Dubravka Djurić’s The Politics of Hope (After the War): Selected and New Poems (Roof Books 2023).

2018 Events
Poetry Reading
2024 Events
Roof Books Group Reading