Maja Herman Sekulić was born in
Belgrade,
Serbia,
Yugoslavia, where she received her M.A. in World Literature from the
University of Belgrade in 1977, and her PhD in Comparative Literature from
Princeton,
New Jersey, in 1986. She spent 1990–91 in Germany, and 1992–7 in the Far East. Nowadays, she shares her time between New York City and Belgrade. She is a member of the Serbian Literary Association, Serbian Literary Society, Serbian and the American
P.E.N. Center,
Academy of American Poets and the
International Federation of Journalists (FIJ). She taught at
Princeton University (1985–89), and
Rutgers University (1982–84), and was guest-lecturer at
Harvard,
Columbia,
Iowa, and other universities. Besides academic work, she has also edited the journal
Night in New York from 1989 to 1990, and is a regular contributor to
Recours au Poème, Belgrade dailies
Politika and Blic, "Cultural Journal" on Serbian TV (RTS) and other media and literary journals. In 2017, she signed the
Declaration on the Common Language of the
Croats,
Serbs,
Bosniaks and
Montenegrins. == Bibliography ==