Maria B. Olujic

Maria B. Olujic is an anthropologist and writer who immigrated to the United States from communist Yugoslavia as a child. She later returned to serve as deputy minister of science and technology in wartime Croatia during the violent dissolution of Yugoslavia. Her work has appeared in Brevity, The Common, 100 Word Story, AGNI, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Panorama, and elsewhere. She has just completed a memoir, Fields of Lavender, Rivers of Fire: A Memoir of War, Womanhood, and Bearing Witness. More at mariaolujic.com. (updated 2/2026)