Milanka Sulejic

About Milanka Sulejić

Milanka Sulejic is a Serbian-American writer, author, and storyteller from Wisconsin whose work explores family, cultural memory, migration, heritage, folklore, place, and the stories passed between generations. Her writing moves between literary nonfiction, memoir, fiction, folklore, and personal narrative, often exploring what remains after people, places, and moments have changed. She is the author of The Ghost Girl Who Never Fully Left, a funny, tender, slightly haunted collection about memory, loneliness, relationships, sensitivity, and the invisible things we carry with us. Her work has appeared in publications including Written Tales Magazine, Sundial Magazine, Tales from the Moonlit Path, Phantom Flash Fiction, and Gone Lawn, with forthcoming work in Književne novine in Serbia. She is also a regular columnist for Anglozine and is currently developing What We Carry, a literary project exploring family history, language, migration, cultural inheritance, and belonging across generations.

The First Generation

By Milanka Sulejić September 13, 2026

There is something I have only recently begun to understand about being the first generation. You are never entirely alone. Not even when you are sitting at the kitchen table…

The Serbian Things I Didn’t Understand Until I Grew Up

By Milanka Sulejić September 10, 2026

Author: Milanka Sulejic When I was a kid, I thought my family was weird.Not bad weird.Just… Serbian weird.I didn't have the vocabulary for it then. I only knew that other…