Marija F. Sullivan was born in 1965 in Sarajevo. Graduated from Sarajevo University, Journalism Department. Her work has appeared in English, Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian collections of noted stories. Her first book The Mermaid's Dream, a collection of original children's fairy tales in English, Adrian Mitchell compared to Andersen's fairy tales. The book was published in 1995 in Singapore and then in 2003 in Sarajevo. A couple of picture books followed (Pocket Elf, A Coat for the Brave). In addition to her children's stories, MFS has written an original collection of short stories in her nat...