Tatjana Lukić

Tatjana Lukić was born in Osijek, Croatia, in the former Yugoslavia, where she spent her first 33 years.

Lukić spoke no English upon her arrival, but she mastered the language following a period of studying and working.

Her English poems have appeared in international literary journals, such as Gangway, SubtleTea, and Versal.

[2] Lukić lived in Canberra with her daughter Jelena, where she died of cancer in 2008, 15 days shy of her 49th birthday.

Laurie Duggan wrote about her poetry: "these poems written in their author's second language have a certainty about them that belies the difficulties Lukić must have encountered at all stages of her writing life.