Tanja Božić

Tanja Božić is a poet, born in 1995 in Ljubljana. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Ljubljana in Comparative literature and French studies and works in the field of cultural diplomacy. Before publishing her debut collection of poems Vejo po vejo (LUD Literatura, 2024), she published her texts in Slovenian print and online media; and wrote, in co-authorship with Natalija Milovanović, the performative poetry dialogue Udomačevanje domačih živali/Pripitomljavanje domaćih životinja [Domestication of Domestic Animals, bilingual] (Ljubljana, self-published, 2019). In 2022, she received a Slovenian literary prize Mlado pero for the emerging young writer (awarded by Delo, central Slovene national daily newspaper). Her poems and short stories have so far been translated into English, French, Serbian and Macedonian.