Olja Knezevic was born and raised in Montenegro, but has lived in California, Belgrade, London and Zagreb.

She has an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck College, London, and was awarded an Overall Prize for the best MA Creative Writing dissertation of the year 2008. That dissertation grew into the novel ‘Milena & Other Social Reforms’, which ended up being published first in Montenegro, then in Croatia.

In both countries, it was a bestseller, although criticised harshly by the Government of Montenegro and the Government regime’s writers and reviewers. 'Milena' is now available in English.

Besides 'Milena & Other Social Reforms', Olja is the author of two more novels: 'Gospoda Black' (2015) and the award-winning 'Katarina, Velika i Mala' (2019).

Katarina will be published by UK publisher Istros Books as 'Catherine the Great and the Small' in June 2020.

Olja is the author of numerous short stories and columns published in various literary magazines and supplements, the best of which were collected and published in 2013, in a book titled Londonske Priče Juga (London & Stories of the South).