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My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

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My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.

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Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!

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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

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I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

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When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.

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You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.

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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.

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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

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Biography

Nationality: Serbian

Type: Novelist

Born: September 30th, 1985

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