Milica Janković was a Serbian writer of prose and verse. She is also known under her pseudonym Leposava Mihajlovic.
She graduated from high school in Veliko Gradiste and art school of the University of Belgrade in 1906. From 1906, she went on to have a teaching career. Unfortunately, from 1928, Milica was mostly bedridden due to chronic illness. She never married. Throughout her entire life, she lived in modest conditions and was often underfunded.
Milica Janković was a very active female writer. She wrote regularly, until her very death, and left a copious body of work behind her. Translated into several languages, her literary works were among the most read in the interwar period. She collaborated with the most significant magazines and newspapers of her time: the Serbian Literary Herald, Delo (The Deed), Venac (The Wreath), Bosanska vila (The Bosnian Fairy), Beogradske novine (The Belgrade Newspaper), Savremenik (The Contemporary), Književni jug (The Literary South), Politika (Politics), Misao (Thought) (1919 – 1933, 1937), Ženski pokret (Women’s Movement), Žena i svet (Woman and the World), Južni pregled (The Southern Review), Letopis Matice srpske (Matica Srpska Journal), and many more. She translated books from Russian such as Tolstoy’s trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, along with the novel Sanin by Mikhail Artsybashev.