Iva VemicBorn in Serbia, Iva moved to New Zealand with her parents and sister in 1996 when she was 8 years old. Without knowing any English, she struggled to find her voice in an alien world. A few years later while attending Epsom Girls Grammar School, she fund creative writing and used it fortify all her wounds into a weapon of words she would use to finally paint the burdens, beauty and battles of her humaneness. As she grew older, her writing evolved with her as she went on to get a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Creative Writing from AUT University. She was runner up in Divine Muses Emerging poets in 2018, and has had her poems published in A Fine Line and Massey Universities Poetry Yearbook New Zealand. Read More Read Less