Nina Živančević

Nina Živančević (born 1957) is a Serbian-born poet, playwright, fiction writer, translator, scholar, performer, curator and art critic.

She apprenticed as a young poet with Allen Ginsberg and has gone on to work in various capacities as both a writer and scholar of experimental, underground and avant-garde literature.

She worked as a literary editor for East Village Eye and Theater X, as a freelance journalist for Politika, El Pais, L'Unita, Woman (Spain), and Nexus, and as a contributor to The New Yorker and New York Arts Magazine.

Živančević is the winner of the 2021 Centre National du Livre grant for creative writing (poetry domain) for a project titled “The Source of Light".

Every face in the room, all the generations, all the clans, every subculture representative, is trained on her... Nina pushes her words way beyond Acker and Ginsberg to a place all her own.