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Snežana Žabić
Adjunct Instructor
- E-mail: szabic@luc.edu
About
Snežana Žabić is the author of the short story collection In a Lifetime (KOS, Serbia, 1996), the memoir Broken Records (punctum books, USA, 2016), and the poetry collection The Breath Capital (New Meridian Arts, USA, 2016). She co-authored, with Ivana Percl, the poetry collection Po(jest)zija/Po(eat)ry (SKC NS, Serbia, 2013).
Degrees
- BA, University of Belgrade
- MA, Central European University
- MFA, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
- PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago
Research Interests
- Contemporary World Poetry
- Experimental Creative Nonfiction
- Literary Translation
- Teaching Online
- Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde
- Globalization
- The EU
- The Balkans
Awards
- Al and Betty Brauner and Scott Brauner Fellowship
- Chicago Consular Corps Scholarship
- UNCW Graduate School Summer Research Grant
- DAAD (German Organization for Academic Exchange) Fellowship
Publications
Books:
- The Breath Capital, poetry collection (New Meridian Press, New York, NY, 2016)
- Broken Records, memoir (Punctum Books, Brooklyn, NY, 2016)
- Po(jest)zija/Po(eat)ry, poetry collection, co-authored with Ivana Percl (SKC NS, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2013)
- U jednom životu, a collection of short stories (KOS, Belgrade, Serbia, 1996)
Anthologies:
- Essay “Funky Wedges” in Život na drugom jeziku (Službeni glasnik, Belgrade, Serbia, 2019)
- Poems in Ovo nije dom: pesnikinje u migraciji (Rekonstrukcija ženski fond & IC Bulevar, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2017)
- Poems and translations in Cat-Painters: An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Poetry from the Sixties to the Present (Lavender Ink's Diágolos Books imprint, New Orleans, LA, 2016)
- Story “Failing Haibun” in Wreckage of Reason 2: Back to the Drawing Board (Spuyten Duyvil, 2014) Short story “Revolver” in Bunker (Arhipelag, Belgrade, 2013)
- Poems and an essay in Diskurzivna tela poezije (AŽIN, Belgrade, 2004)
- Short story “Zbogom, Dre,” in the anthology Ekran priče (Naklada MD and IskonInternet, Zagreb, 2003)
