Hedina Tahirović-Sijerčić was born and educated in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she was the first producer and television and radio journalist of Romani origin. Her poems "CV 1" and excerpt from "Hear, Feel" were published in the poetry anthology European Constitution in Verse, Brussels, Belgium. She is author of Romani Folk Tales, poetry book Dukh-Pain and five children’s books published by Magoria Books. Magoria also published her English-Gurbeti and Gurbeti-English Dictionary in 2010 and 2013. From 2012 to 2014 Hedina taught two elective courses at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, Croatia: Romani language and Culture and Literature of Roma.