Outside, Sarajevo stretched wide. A geography of peaks and dips and lights. And the same landscape swelled up to meet it from deep within my past.

— “Geography of Peaks and Dips and Lights,” The Rumpus

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

My fiction, poetry, and memoir have appeared in The Threepenny Review, World Literature Today, The Rumpus, The Greensboro Review, The Baltimore Review, New Ohio Review, Witness, Notre Dame Review, and elsewhere. An early chapbook of flash fiction, We Cradled Each Other in the Air, appeared in 2017.

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 what happens when we witness violence but cannot speak, when systems (familial, bureaucratic, and social) silence those who see. The manuscript 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.