Born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1978, Adina Popescu has a BA in Film Directing, but she’s been working as a cultural journalist since she was 18. In 1999, Adina published her first children’s book, Doar un zbor în jurul lumii (Just a Flight Over the World). Other books followed, showing her interest in children’s literature: Miriapodul hoinar şi alte poveşti (The Wandering Myriapod and Other Stories), Mari poveşti româneşti pe înţelesul celor mici (Romanian Tales for Young Readers), Aventurile lui Doxi în benzi desenate (Doxi’s Adventures in Comic Strips), the latter together with Alexandru Ciubotariu. In 2015, she published Povestiri de pe Calea Moşilor (Stories from Calea Moșilor), a book initially written for adult readers, but which also appealed to children who were willing to find a time machine and travel back to the 1980s. Her latest book, A Secret History of the Vampire Country, is a fantasy trilogy that won the The Arthur Trophy, a literary creation competition. She has worked on it for almost 10 years, and in this time she also wrote about baby-sitters, garbage collectors, fishermen, neighbours who listen to music excessively loud, cyclists, ambassadors, writers, shepherds, and other narrative reports bordering on fiction.