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Biljana D. Obradović

Home Featured Authors & Panelists Featured Participant Lineup 2026 Biljana D. Obradović

Biljana D. Obradović is a Serbian-American poet, translator, and Professor at Xavier University of Louisiana. Her acclaimed poetry collections include Le Riche Monde, Frozen Embraces—which won the Rastko Petrović Award—Incognito, and Little Disruptions. A prolific translator, she has brought numerous Serbian poets to English, earning the NASSS Prize for The Politics of Hope, and has translated prominent English-language poets into Serbian. She also co-edited the award-winning anthology Cat Painters: An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Poetry.

 

Schedule

9:00 am to 10:30 am
Outside Museum, West Tent
Diving Into Nature: An Eco-Poetry Anthology of Louisiana
Ralph Adamo, Jack B. Bedell, Jordan Biggs, Toby Daspit, Malaika Favorite, Mark Folse, Dennis Formento, John Gery, Ashley Mace Havird, David Havird, Roberta Whitman Hoff, Mason Joiner, Julie Kane, Biljana D. Obradović, Ed Ruzicka, Bessie Senette, Michael S. True, and Andy Young with John P. Travis

10:45 am to 11:30 am
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

12:45 pm to 1:45 pm
Outside Museum, West Tent
Louisiana Poet Laureate Presents Louisiana Poets, Vol II
Emily Cosper, Witness Before the Fall
Bill Lavender, city of god
Biljana D. Obradović, Called by Distances: Poems
Ann Plicque, New Barrier Islands: Poems
Ed Ruzicka, The Invention of Dreaming: Poems
with Gina Ferrara

2:00 pm to 2:45 pm
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

Called by Distances: Poems

In Called by Distances, Biljana D. Obradović looks back at a life that includes surviving the demise of her native country of Yugoslavia, the loss of her parents in the same year, and displacement from Hurricane Katrina. Her poetry encompasses loves and deaths, international travels and adjustments to American culture, often accompanied by a feeling of not belonging anywhere. What emerges from these richly evocative poems is a portrait of an artist who resists the call to assimilate, and instead carves her own unique path, continuing to dream.

Diving Into Nature: An Eco-Poetry Anthology of Louisiana

A collection of 70 nature-based poems, several by Louisiana State Poet Laureates, focused on the wondrous but endangered environment of Louisiana.