Skenderija began publishing poetry, prose and criticism in Bosnian (Serbo-Croatian) in the late 1980s, graduating from the University of Sarajevo in 1991.

After surviving six months of the siege of Sarajevo, he fled to Prague, where he received a Ph.D. in Information Science from Charles University (1997).

In 1999, with the help of translator and Cornell University linguistics professor Wayles Browne,[1] Skenderija arrived in Ithaca, New York.

[3] Skenderija is one of the most renowned Bosnian poets born since 1960, and his work confronts a range of experience, from the quotidian to the polemical, while pushing the boundaries of the genre.

[5] His poetry has been included in several Bosnian and Croatian anthologies and translated into Czech, English, Macedonian[14] and Slovenian:[15] English translations of his poems have also been included in: Skenderija also contributed lyrics to three albums of the cult Sarajevo techno-industrial band SCH (VRIL, 2002; Eat This!, 2004; and Dance, 2007).