Sofija Stefanovic a Serbian-Australian writer and storyteller in New York. She hosts the monthly literary salon Women of Letters at Joe’s Pub. She’s writing a memoir: Miss Ex-Yugoslavia, about coming of age as Yugoslavia dies, moving to Australia and embracing her identity as a perpetual fish out of water, featuring benevolent dictators, beauty queens, and everything in between (Atria Books).
A young girl realizes her communist Serbian upbringing was lacking on a stopover in the beautiful Singapore airport on the way to her family’s new life in Australia.
Sofija Stefanovic is a journalist investigating internet scams who forms a special relationship with someone online.
Sofija Stefanovic fell for a boy, when she was young, whose parents nationalism made him “the enemy” in the eyes of her parents. Through her young Romeo and Juliet scenario she learned to embrace the innocent hope of her inner child.