Maja Herman Sekulić

• Name — Maja Herman Sekulić • Born — 17 February 1949 • Birthplace — Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia • Occupation — Poet, writer and translator • Period — 1980–present

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.

• Kralj svile, 2000, 2001. (Maya Herman, "In Search of the Silk King", a novel, Xlibris, 2005, Library of Congress 2005902697) • Slike kojih nema, (Pictures not taken), 2009. • U potrazi za Lolitom (Looking for Lolita), 2011. (new, changed "female" edition of the novel Slike kojih nema), English translation in preparation for publication • Ma Belle, prva americka dama Srbije, 2015, Sluzbeni glasnik, Beograd

• Skice za portrete (Sketches for Portraits) A collection of essays and conversations with colleagues and friends, American and international authors ranging from Joseph Brodsky to Bret Easton Ellis. • Knjizevnost prestupa (Literuture of Transgression) First published in English as a series of essays in James Joyce Quarterly and European Studies Journal, then as doctoral dissertation (The Fall of Hyperbaton: Parodic and Revisionary Strategies in Bely, Joyce, and Mann,...) • Prozor u žadu, Prosveta 1994. A book of travel essays about travels through Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Burma. It was published in English under pen name Maya Herman, The Jade Window (D.K Book House, Bangkok, London, 1998); Publisher Code: B0003/1998-2,000 The jade window: images from Southeast Asia • Digitalna galaksija (Digital Galaxy), 2011. a book of micro essays about the transition of our world from print to digital media. • "Who was Nikola Tesla? The Genius who gave us Light" Zavod za udzbenike 2015, Belgrade,.