Dana Todorović was born in Belgrade in 1977 to an American mother and Yugoslav father. Aspiring to continue her family’s long-standing acting tradition, she studied drama in New York and Indianapolis and obtained a B.A. in Drama Studies in London. Following her studies, she spent six years working as a translator for the UN and continued to nurture her acting ambitions by taking on occasional roles in films, until she finally discovered writing as her greatest passion. Dana writes very, very slowly. She likes to let her sentences "simmer quietly over a low heat", while putting her whole heart into the process. She is, above all, grateful to the art of fiction writing for having discovered in it the perfect medium to express her innermost convictions in a way that is allegorical, unobtrusive, and in her opinion, all the more effective. She believes in a heart-based existence, and intends to keep the message of kindness and compassion as a key ingredient in her thought-provoking, philosophical fiction.