Dženana Vucic is a Bosnian-Australian writer, editor and critic based in Berlin. Her first poetry collection, after war, was published in 2026 and she is the recipient of a 2026 Berlin Senate Grant for Non-German Literature.
Dženana holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Glasgow, a Masters in Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Law and Arts from La Trobe University. She provides freelance editing services (including structural and developmental editing, copyediting and proofreading) to publishing houses, companies and individuals.
Dženana has received the Frank Moorhouse Fellowship, Red Room/ Varuna Poetry Fellowship, Peter Blazey Fellowship, Marten Bequest, Kill Your Darlings New Critic Award, Kat Muscat Fellowship and Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship.
Her work has been shortlisted for numerous awards and her writing has been published widely. She is currently the reviews editor at Cordite Poetry Review.
2026 Arbeitsstipendien für nichtdeutschsprachige Literatur
2025 Frank Moorhouse Fellowship
2023 Kill Your Darlings New Critic Award
2022 Marten Bequest
2022 Peter Blazey Fellow
2021 Kat Muscat Fellow
2020-21 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow
2020-21 William Lauchlan Mann Scholarship
2019 Rae and Edith Bennett Travelling Scholarship
2019 Felix Meyer Scholarship
