Sladjana Sea is a graduate student of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Vienna. A war refugee from former Yugoslavia her and her family ended up in Connecticut where she completed high school and her bachelors degree at the University of Connecticut. She has long gravitated toward the Anglophone world - its literature, its language, and its narrative possibilities. Her work is shaped by displacement, migration, loss and the lived experience of moving between cultures. A writer in essence, traveler, and coach, she explores themes of identity, belonging, and reinvention in both her academic and creative work.