To Mothers: Sept. 23, 2005

Originally from Yugoslavia, is Associate Professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana. She has published two collections of poems: Le Riche Monde and Frozen Embraces. Her work is also in Three Poets in New Orleans. Her poems recently appeared in such anthologies as Like Thunder: Poets Respond in Violence in America and Key West: A Collection. She also has two books of translation, and two more on their way. She lived in Mid City, New Orleans, with her husband, John Gery, and son Petar M. O. Gery. Due to losing the first floor of their house from Katrina and Rita hurricanes, they stayed in Asheville, and then in Minneapolis where they have received fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota.