vesna stanic was born in Zagab, where she studied at the Academy of Drama and Fine Arts. In her native city she worked as a journalist for some weeks, as well as with the local radio-TV station. In the late '70s she moved to Rome, where she has taught Croatian, Serbian and Italian for foreigners at the Berlitz School of Languages and at the Panvista Multimethod School. As a translator she has collaborated with the Agenzia Barberini in Roma, the Centre for Italian-Yugoslavian Cultural Relations, and Cospe in Florence, among others. In Italy she has published the novel L'isola di pietra (Aiep 2000) and she has translated the novel by Mesa Selimovic, La fortezza (Besa 2004) into Italian. Her poems have been included in the Second Balkan Collection in the series "Cittadini della poesia" "Citizens of Poetry"(Loggia de' Lanzi 2000). Her short stories have appeared, among others, in the newspaper "L'Unità", the weekly cultural section of the newspaper "Il Manifesto", the periodical Il ponte, and the four-monthly poetry and cultural review "Almanacco del ramo d'oro", published in Trieste. She lives and works in Florence.