Ivana Maksić (Kragujevac, 1984) writes poetry, impressions, essays and translates from English. She published the following poetry collections: Oh body, create me (2011), Out of communication (2013), La mia paura di essere schiava (in Italian: 2014), Jaz sem tvoj propagandni film (Serbian-Slovenian: 2018) and Daughter, don’t you see that I'm on fire? (2020). Her poetry has been published in many anthologies and volumes: Van, tu: free (2012), RESTART (2014), Soft tissues (2015), This is not home - the poetesses on immigration (2017) and in the French online literary magazine "Recours au Poème". She edited the poetry volume with social theme Until the signs of the year (2014) and the regional collective volume with social and militant poetry "Breakthrough" (2016). As an experienced distance learning teacher, she teaches English to thousands of people around the world.