A.J. Vrana is a Serbian-Canadian author who traverses folklore-infused fantasy, horror, and romance. She is the author of the award-winning Chaos Cycle Duology: The Hollow Gods (2020) and The Echoed Realm (2021), and the companion novel Wildblood (2024) from Parliament House Press. As an academic, she holds a PhD from the University of Toronto, where she researched the supernatural in Japanese and former Yugoslavian literature, and her Master of Health Studies research focuses on type 1 diabetes and emotional labor in young adults. Her scholarly work often weaves its way into her fiction, employing the speculative to explore the diasporic experience, trans-generational trauma, and chronic illness.