Amela Marin is a writer and translator, whose short stories and essays have been published in magazines internationally. Her novella, The Sea, explores exodus from a besieged city. She has translated poetry, short stories, essays, plays and novels, including the works of Lawrence Durrell, Saul Bellow, Susan Sontag, Bernard Malamud, Sandra Cisneros, Ferida Duraković and many others. She worked in arts administration for many years and has recently taken up food photography.