I am a creative writer, originally from Sarajevo, Bosnia. The Bosnian War divided my childhood between the Balkans and Spain, and much of my work—fiction, poetry, and memoir—draws heavily from the tastes, sights, and sounds of Southern Europe.

My chapbook of flash fiction, We Cradled Each Other in the Air, was released in 2017, and my stories, poems, and essays have appeared in World Literature Today, The Threepenny Review, The Rumpus, The Greensboro Review, The Baltimore Review, New Ohio Review, Witness, Notre Dame Review, and other journals.

I hold an MFA in creative writing and an MA in Hispanic literature from Indiana University, where I served as associate nonfiction editor for Indiana Review. I am currently on staff with Crab Creek Review, and have served as guest fiction editor for their special issue on displacement and immigration.

My in-progress story collection explores pockets of life in Southern Europe following the war in the Balkans. The manuscript, in its current form, was selected as a finalist for the 2025 Iron Horse Book Prize and as a semifinalist for both the 2021 St. Lawrence Book Award and the 2022 Ohio State University Press Non/Fiction Collection Prize.

I am at work on a novel.