Maya Herman Sekulić

An academic, editor, translator, writer, poet, and a world traveler. She was born in Belgrade, Serbia. She earned her Master of Arts at the Belgrade University in world literature. She got her PhD Degree at the Princeton University in the field of the Philosophy of Comparative Literature. She is an internationally published author of 15 books. She taught at prestigious universities such as Princeton, Rutgers, and was a guest lecturer at Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Iowa. Her new novel Ma Belle, now in English translation, was nominated in 2016 for the most prestigious Serbian literary award as were her two previous novels. Maya Herman’s book of travel essays about Southeast Asia, The Jade Window, was first published in English (Bangkok,1998), and then in Serbian    Her poetry book entitled Out of the Waste Land / Iz puste zemlje, (Paideia, Belgrade), came out as a bilingual English & Serbian edition in 1998.

Fragments from all her poetry and essay books were published in English and other languages. Her last poetry book was published bilingually in Serbian and English with a title of “Gospa od Vinče / Lady of Vincha“.    Maja Herman Sekulic is actively involved in editing and translating. She was invited to be the editor of an anthology of modern Yugoslav poetry (Micromegas, Iowa, 1985) that was praised by critics; her translations of Yugoslav poets were included in five poetry anthologies in English. She was awarded with many very prestigious fellowships such as Princeton University, Fulbright (twice) & Association of American University Women. She is a member of the Serbian and the American P.E.N., Serbian Literary Society and the International Federation of Journalists. Nowadays, she shares her time between New York and Belgrade, and writes in both English and Serbian.