Dr. Nirha Efendić (Zvornik, 1979) is the curator of oral poetry at the Ethnological Department of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She graduated from the Department of Oriental Philology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Sarajevo and then received her doctorate in literary and historical sciences. She is the author of dozens of professional and scientific articles in domestic and international journals, a chapter on sevdalinka: “The Sevdalinka, as Traditional Bosnian Love Song” which she prepared for the Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore , as well as two research studies: Bosnian Oral Poetry – Cultural and Historical Frameworks of Genesis and Poetic Characteristics and Sevdalinka – From the First News to Contemporary Singers , and the editor of a collection of oral lyric and lyric narrative poems – Folk Creations from Derventa and Its Surroundings . She is a member of several international associations in the fields of ethnology, anthropology, folklore, and ethnomusicology. Her works have been published in Bosnian, English, Croatian, Polish and Slovenian.