Vanja was born in the beginning of December in 1979, in northeast part of ex Yugoslavia.
My childhood memories are all foggy, I remember it like through the opiate haze, I was always somewhere in my dream world, plotting on how to travel around the world.
Living on turbulent Balkan territory, chasing her true passions: acting and writing around her parents wishes for her to have a 'real job' she ended up at Zagreb University attaining MA in linguistics and started PhD at University of Ljubljana, neither of which got her a real job.
The world of Academia was great experience. It taught me discipline and persistence and joy of achieving non materialistic goals, like for example writing a book. It gave me wider perspectives and it took me into different countries.
Moving insanely often, acting and writing were often the only constants in her life. Twenty three (and counting) location change later, living in four countries and one island, four capitals, three little towns and two villages, with 35 room mates (not all at once obviously), visiting five more countries and meeting insane number of amazing people, I am still searching for my place under the sun.