Tania Romanov is an award-winning travel writer and photographer. She is author of Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women and her latest, a travel story collection, Never a Stranger. A Solas Award winner, Tania’s work has also been featured in multiple travel anthologies and translated into Serbo-Croatian and Russian.

Born in the former Yugoslavia, Tania fled the country and spent her childhood in a refugee camp in Trieste, Italy, before emigrating to the United States. She went through San Francisco’s public schools, U.C. Berkeley, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She served as CEO of three technology companies, then founded the Healdsburg Literary Guild and the educational non-profit Public School Success Team.

Fluent in a number of languages including her native Serbo-Croatian and Russian, as well as French and Italian, Tania’s upcoming One Hundred Years of Exile (pub date: Oct. 6, 2020) is the true story of one woman’s journey through one hundred years of history to find peace with her father.