Marija Knežević (born 29 December 1963) is a Serbian poet, fiction writer, essayist, literary translator and Professor of literature.

Knežević was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1963.

[1] She graduated from Belgrade University with a degree in Comparative Literature and Theory of Literature.

degree at Michigan State University where she also taught from 1996 to 2000.

She wrote a column for the Politika newspaper.