In Death of New York City: Selected Poems, Nina Zivancevic's writing straddles two major cultural groups (American/English and European/non English) using English as her medium. Fluent, and having written in her native Yugoslavian, as well as French and English, she is able to bring a wider scope of linguistic references with which to apprehend the psychological and physical phenomena that inform her writing. Nina Zivancevic lives up to her international reputation as one of the foremost living poets of her native Yugoslavia from which she has won numerous prestigious awards since an early age. For this work originally written in English, in his forward, Charles Simic an expatriate and major American poet writes, "Nina Zivancevic is one of the most original poets writing in Europe in the last twenty years...The genius of her art lies in her ability to make surprising connections between diverse cultures and literatures giving her poetry a richness and range that is truly rare. Nina ZivancevicAbout the AuthorPoet, essayist, fiction writer, art critic, a contributing editor to NY Arts from Paris, Nina Zivancevic published her first book of poems Poems in 1982 for which she won the National Award in Yugoslavia. She has 9 books of poetry published in Serbian and in English. She also has three books of short stories published in Paris, New York and Belgrade Recherche Philippe Sollers with Noel Blandin (1992), Inside and Out of Byzantium with Semiotexte (1994), and Vreme Knjige with Vizantijske Price (1995). Recipient of three poetry awards, she has edited and participated in numerous anthologies of contemporary world poetry. As editor she has contributed to New York Arts Magazine, American Book review, East Village Eye (U.S.), Republique de Lettres (Paris), L'Unitá (Italy), Politika and Dnevnik in Yugoslavia.(This is a partial biography. A more complete form may be requested from the publisher.