Olja Savičević is a poet, writer, and journalist from Split, Croatia. Her first collection of poetry was published when she was only fourteen, and since then she has published six collections of poems, a short story collection (which won a prize for the best prose author under thirty-five), and a novel. She regularly collaborates with theaters as a dramatist and lyricist, and two of her short stories have been adapted into short films. Adios, Cowboy was awarded the best Croatian novel of 2011 by T-portal and was adapted into a successful stage play the following year. An excerpt of the novel was included in Dalkey Archive’s Best European Fiction 2014 and won Savičević a place at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Her work has been translated into more than seventeen languages.