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

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)