About the Author

Born 1957 in Livno, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Resides in Zagreb. A founder/editor of the journal, ""Quorum,"" his first collection of stories, ""Midnight Boogie,"" was hailed by Croatian critics as the most charismatic book of the 1980s. As a journalist, published widely from the battlefields during the Homeland War. His experiences as journalist and soldier chronicled in ""Under the Rainbow,"" (novella) and in memoirs. Busic is a native of Oregon and holds a Master's Degree in German and Liguistics. She has won the Croatian Writer's Society award. She has been senior advisor in the Office of the President in the Republic of Croatia. She served 13 years in prison and was released in 1989. Her husband was incarcerated for almost 25 years.