Gordana Đilas graduated from “Dušan Vasiljev” Secondary School in Kikinda and attended the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, where she graduated in Yugoslav and World Literature in 1982. In 2011, she earned a master's degree at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, in Librarianship and Information Sciences. She worked on gathering material for the Srpski biografski rečnik .She taught Serbian Language and Literature at “Đorđe Bešlin” Secondary School, in Тitel, and at the School of Chemistry in Novi Sad, after which she worked for the Matica Srpska Publishing Company.
The Matica Srpska Library
She has been working at the Matica Srpska Library since 1989, in the Department for Cataloguing and Bibliographic Work, and as of 1992 she is Head of the Heritage Collection of Vojvodina. In 2007, she was appointed Deputy Head of the Department for Storage and Use of Publications, and in 2009 Head of the Department. She acquired her Librarian's Professional Certificate at the Matica Srpska Libraryin 1989, after defending her research paper entitled “Katalog knjiga Rastka Petrovića u Biblioteci Matice srpske”. She earned the title senior librarian in 2002, and advisor in 2005. She has organized the following exhibitions in the Matica Srpska Library: Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević, Srpska književna zadruga, Momčilo Nastasijević, Svetozar Miletić and Matica Srpska, Glasnik Društva srpske slovenosti,Branko Radičević, Matica Srpska: 1826–2001and Aleksandar Tišma. She is President of the Subsidiaries of the Matica Srpska Library, the University of Novi Sad and colleges in Vojvodina. Since 1999, she is Associate Member of Мatica Srpska. She has been member of the editorial board of the periodical Glas biblioteke, and the Board of the Matica Srpska Department of Lexicography since 2012. She has published a series of articles in the Matica Srpska LibraryAnnual about significant figures in the history of the Matica Srpska Library–Jovan Radonić, Jovan Đorđević, Jovan Subotić, BorislavMihajlović Mihiz,Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Mileta and Milutin Jakšić,Kamenko Subotić, Milan Savić, Aleksandar Sandić, Žarko Vasiljević, Dimitrije Kirilović, Vasa Stajić, Marko Maletin, Franjo Malin, Kosta and Nikola Milutinović, Konstantin Peičić, Triva Militar, Jovan Bošković, Svetislav Banica, Toma Teodorović and SubotaMladenović. She took part in creating the following accredited programs: Assisting Library Users, 2014, Bibliography, and Bibliographical Research and Compiling Personal Bibliographies, 2015. She participated innumerous library conferences and literary gatherings.
Bibliographical work
She compiled and published selective bibliographies of: Matija Bećković, Momo Kapor, Borisav Stanković, Vujica Rešin Tucić, Sava Damjanov, Milan Pražić, Simon Grabovac, Vladimir Kopicl, Ivan Negrišorac, Đorđe Pisarev, Duško Vrtunski, Branko Andrić Andrla, Petko Vojnić Purčar, Raša Popov, Žarko Zolotić, Miodrag Perišić, Jasna Melvinger, Katalin Ladik, Milan Nenadić, Selimir Radulović, Trifun Dimić, Pero Zubac, Blagoje Baković, Đorđo Sladoje, Andrej Živor, Andrej Tišma, Nikola Kitanović, Olivera Radulović, Špiro Matijević, Zlata Kocić, Radovan Mićić, Marija Jovancai, Dušica Grbić, Anđelko Erdeljanin, Oto Fenjveši, Nenad Grujičić, Nedeljko Radlović, Novica Tadić, Ranko Jovović, Bratislav Milanović, Stevan Raičković, Sava Mrkalj, Petar Krdu, Dušan Radak, Žarko Komanin, Marija Šimoković, Slobodan Rakitić, Dragomir Brajković, Svetislav Jovanov, Nenad Mitrov, Stevan Pešić, Emsura Hamzić, Tomislav Z. Longinović, Ivan Čolović, Gojko Tešić, Dušan Vojvodić, Momir Vojvodić, Franja Petrinović. She is working jointly on the following projects: Srpski biografski rečnik and Leksikon pisaca srpske književnosti. She is the Assistant Director for storage and use of publications at the Matica Srpska Library. She has published nine books of poetry and a book of selected poetry. Her poems have been translated into Ruthenian, Romanian and Swedish.
Works
Poetry
Pred ogledalom, Matica srpska, Novi Sad, 1985;
Gospodine, gospodine, Matica srpska, Novi Sad, 1989;
Carski vrt, Društvo književnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996;
Zvezda juga, Svetovi, Novi Sad, 2002;
Usputna stanica, Braničevo, Požarevac, 2005;
Učitelj sećanja, Novi Sad, 2009;
Sećanje koje se nije dogodilo, Novi Sad, 2011;
Druge stvari, Zavod za kulturu Vojvodine,Novi Sad, 2012;
Bila sam poslušno drvo , Orpheus, Novi Sad, 2012;
Sever, udaljen zvuk, Povelja, Kraljevo, 2015;
Essays
Šest poslenika Biblioteke Matice srpske, Matica Srpska Library, Novi Sad, 1998;
Bibliographies
Bibliografija INDIS 1976-2009, FTN, Novi Sad, 2010..