Born in Banjaluka, in the former Yugoslavia, in 1988. She holds both a BA and an MA degree in Dramaturgy from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, and an MA in Applied Theatre Studies from Gießen, Germany . Her plays have been translated into 10 languages and have been published, publicly read and produced in professional theatres in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Albania, Spain, Poland, Austria and Germany. She also writes short stories, radio plays, screenplays for short films and theoretical texts about theatre. In 2017 her play "All adventurous women do" was shortlisted for the Retzhofer Playwrighting Prize in Austria; her play "We Are the Ones Our Parents Warned Us About" was invited to take part in the Berlin Stückemarkt Festival that same year. Since 2019 she is Drama Manager at the National Theatre in Belgrade.

Awards and grants (selection):
2013 Petar Kočić Prize for best play in Banjaluka
2015 Writer-in-residence at Internationales Haus der AutorInnen (IHG) in Graz, Austria,
2015/16 Writer-in-Residence at Museums Quartier 21 in Vienna, Austria,
2016 Writer-in-Residence at the Pristina Has no River artist residency programme in Pristina, Kosovo.
2016 Sterija award for Best Contemporary Play in Serbia
2016 MESS market co-production award, Sarajevo

Henschel SCHAUSPIEL represents her work throughout the world, except for in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro.