Kristin is a very talented writer with a focus on travel and has real passion for Croatian projects. She’s working on a book of fiction based on her experiences on Pag island. The Croatian National Tourist Board is sponsoring her 2016 individual Croatia trip (Istria/Kvarner/Zagreb), where she will be writing a feature assignment for BBC’s Good Food Magazine and an article about Pag cheese chocolates, Paskinjice, for Culture Magazine.
During her undergraduate years at Columbia University, from 2002 through 2006, she was fortunate to study a year of Croatian language with Kansas University’s six-week summer program, “Language and Culture in Dubrovnik”.
Also, while pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Nonfiction Writing at Columbia University, she was elected editor-in-chief of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art (published annually). website
Here’s her wonderful literary essay about her grandmother’s Croatian cooking which was published in Connecticut Review in 2007. After graduating in 2009, she has pursued travel writing with a passion. She proudly has written about Croatian culture and cuisine for print and online publications such as Conde Nast Traveller India, Culture, Afar, Food & Wine, Wine Enthusiast. In 2011, Kristin covered the 6th Annual Croatian Days of Cheese Festival, held at the Pag island cheese factory. In 2012, Ivan Miletic, a historian and librarian in Zagreb and coauthor of From the Adriatic to Lake Erie: A History of Croatians in Greater Cleveland, asked her to help edit a book project, Croatians in America: A Photo Monograph. In 2012, Sirana Gligora invited her to work on a book project about restaurants on the island of Pag that highlighted Pag cheese (Paski sir) in their dishes.
Kristin has been a reporter for the Croatian Chronicle and some highlights include: interview with President Ivo Josipovic in Dubrovnik during the 2011 summer festival; wrote an article about the grand opening of the Croatia Club of Tampa Bay, Florida, attended by then Croatian Ambassador Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic. She has attended “Croatian Professionals in New York” meetings and took Croatian classes at Saint Cyril and Methodius Croatian Church in Manhattan during her college years. Family from Svarca Donja, Karlovac.
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