Poet, translator and publicist, graduated from the University of Ljubljana in 1985 (Comparative Literature and Sociology). Milan has been living and working in London since 1992. He is a co-author of a satirical epistolary novel Spolitika (Cankarjeva založba, 1999). His first collection of poetry Darilo (Gift) was published by ŠKUC-Lambda in 2006. His second poetry collection Kristali soli (Crystals of Salt) (ŠKUC-Lambda) followed in 2010, Gradim gradove (Building Buildings) in 2015, and his fourth collection Slediti neizgovorjenemu (Tracing the Unspoken) in 2018 (both published by ŠKUC-Lambda). ​ Milan is one of several correspondents in a book of testimonies Drugačna razmerja (Mladinska knjiga, 2010). His poems were translated into several languages. Poems in a Hebrew translation were published in an anthology Cavafy’s Sons and Grandsons in Israel in 2015. A substantial selection of his poems in Italian translation are in the Magazine Fili d’aquilone (No. 46, April/June 2017) and in English translation in The Riveter magazine in the UK. ​ He has made several translations for Anthology of Contemporary European Gay Poetry, Moral bi spet priti (ŠKUC-Lambda, 2009) and Anthology of Contemporary European Lesbian Poetry, Brez besed ji sledim (ŠKUC-Lambda, 2016). He presented Slovenian LGBTQ literature with other authors in Berlin in 2017, Sarajevo in 2019 and Lisbon in 2020. His fourth collection of poetry Tracing the Unspoken was published in English translation by A Midsummer Night’s Press in New York in 2019 and his first illustrated poetry book for children Kosmatice in 2020.

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