Jelena DinicJelena Dinic arrived in Australia in 1993 during the collapse of Yugoslavia. She writes in Serbian and English. She is the recipient of the George Town Literary Exchange and The Arts Space residency in Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia, the Eleanor Dark Foundaton Varuna Writers' Retreat in the Blue Mountains, and the Lighthouse Arts Hunter Residency.

Jelena's poems and short stories have been published in literary journals and anthologies, including Australian Book Review, Australian Poetry Anthology, Australian Poetry Journal, Best Australian Poems, Jacaranda, Saltbush Review, Going Down Swinging, Westerly, and the Canberra Times.

In the Room with the She Wolf, her first book of poems, was winner of the 2020 Adelaide Festival Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award, and the Mary Gilmore Award for the best first book of poetry published in Australia in 2021.

Here second book of poetry is titled The Bridge.

Jelena lives in the Adelaide Hills with her family. Read More Read Less