Maria Olujic

Maria B. Olujic is an anthropologist and writer who served as Deputy Minister of Science and Technology in wartime Croatia during the violent dissolution of Yugoslavia. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Brevity, 100 Word Story, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Panorama, Catamaran, Sky Island Journal, Beyond Words Magazine, and Penstricken.  She explores memory and gendered violence, bridging personal and political histories shaped by diaspora, dislocation, and survival. Her memoir, Fields of Lavender, Rivers of Fire: A Memoir of War, Womanhood, and Bearing Witness, is currently under editorial review.