Dženana Vucic is a Bosnian-Australian writer and editor. Her first poetry collection will be released with UQP in May 2026. She is also working on a novel about the Bosnian war, identity, memory, myth- and history-making, and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are.

Much of Dženana’s work focuses on identity, un/belonging and language. She is especially interested in exploring parallels and resonances between various forms of Islamophobia and racism, nationalisms around the world, and mythologies of selfhood (whether individual, group or national). Dženana also writes on feminism, queerness, capitalism, technology and kinship.

Her work has been shortlisted for the 2025 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing (poetry), the 2024 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, the 2023 Newcastle Poetry Prize, the 2023 and 2020 Woollahra Digital Literary Award, the 2020 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing (essay) and the 2019 Deakin Nonfiction Prize.

Her essays, reviews and poems have been published widely. She is currently a fiction editor at SAND and reviews editor at Cordite Poetry Review.

Dženana is currently based between Berlin and Naarm/Melbourne, where she lives on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people. She can also often be found in Trusina, Bosnia.