My chapbook War Food won the 2022 Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition, published by Southword Editions in Cork, Ireland, May 2023.
Biography
Milica Mijatović is a Serb poet, translator, and author of War Food (Southword Editions), winner of the 2022 Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition. Born in Brčko, Bosnia and Hercegovina, she relocated to the United States where she earned a BA in Creative Writing and English Literature from Capital University. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University and is a recipient of a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in Rattle, Salamander, Plume, The Louisville Review, Collateral, Santa Clara Review, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and she serves as Poetry Editor for Consequence.
Read my work.
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"Ohio"
Published in Plume, Spring 2024.
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"Delusions of an Immigrant Child"
Published in The Night Heron Barks, Winter 2023. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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"Hummingbird"
Published in Third Wednesday Magazine, Fall 2023.
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"Summers spent back home taught me childhood"
Published in Tupelo Quarterly Review, Summer 2023.
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"Oj Golube, Moj Golube"
Published in Plume, Spring 2023.
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"In America, I learn about satisfaction"
Published in The Shore Poetry, Spring 2023.
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"I eat moths for breakfast before singing in church every Sunday"
Published in Barzakh, Spring 2023.
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"Donji Žabar"
Published in Broadsided Press, Winter 2022.
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"Pedestrian Bridge Over the Train Tracks in Brčko, BiH"
Published in Rattle, Summer 2022.
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"War, Dream," "I'm looking for you"
Published in Collateral, Fall 2021.
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"By the Brka River," "Pored Rijeke Brke"
Published in Palette Poetry, Spring 2022.
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"Aftermath," "And during the war"
Published in Consequence, Fall 2021.
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"Residue"
Published in Santa Ana River Review, Spring 2021.
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"Roots," "Letter to Port Orange," "War Food"
Published in The Night Heron Barks, Spring 2021.
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"Monday"
Published in Barely South Review, Spring 2021.
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"Strawberries," "Human Head, Dream"
Published in The Louisville Review, Fall 2020. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
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"Nurture"
Published in Santa Clara Review, Spring 2021.
I’m blessed to contribute to these editorial teams.
Consequence
I joined the Consequence Poetry Team in June 2021 as one of two Readers before becoming the Assistant Poetry Editor. As of early 2024, I’ve been contributing as the Poetry Editor! It’s been an absolute pleasure to be part of the behind-the-scenes effort. Consequence’s mission is crucial to me as a poet and human. Exploring war and geopolitical violence through great literature fosters necessary discussion and reflection.
Poets Reading The News
From March 2021 to August 2021, I served as an Associate Poetry Editor for the online journal and non-profit PRTN. Exploring news - whether tragic, disheartening, or hopeful - through poetry is genius in my opinion. It allows us to process what’s happening and react to it in a way that’s constructive and empowering.