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Author: The Cheesemaker's Daughter
"Utterly original and hypnotic. Vukovic's debut novel deftly handles Croatia's complicated history by taking the reader to a cheese factory on Pag Island. Beautifully researched. This is a writer to watch." Lori Messing McGarry, Real Fiction.
Kristin Vuković is the author of the debut novel THE CHEESEMAKER’S DAUGHTER (Regalo Press) about a 34-year-old New Yorker and Yugoslav refugee who, after being summoned back to her beautiful Croatian island to save her father’s struggling cheese factory, must confront her rocky past and heal herself in the wake of a fracturing marriage–a moving tale of cultural identity and resilience, set in the year before Croatia joins the European Union.
Kristin Vuković’s work has appeared in The New York Times, BBC Travel, BBC Good Food Magazine, AFAR, Travel + Leisure, Coastal Living, Hemispheres, Virtuoso, Fodor’s, and Public Books, among many others.
Kristin received the 2024 Rising Star Award in Arts & Culture from the ACAP (Association of Croatian American Professionals Foundation). She also received two Zlatna Penkala (Golden Pen) awards for her writing about Croatia from the Croatian National Tourist Board (2024 and 2017). In 2019, her BBC Travel piece “Dalmatia’s Fjaka State of Mind” won first place in the Society of American Travel Writers Eastern Chapter Contest, Miscellaneous category. In 2016, she was named a “40 Under 40” honoree by The National Federation of Croatian Americans Cultural Foundation.
Kristin graduated with honors from Columbia University with a degree in Literature and Writing. She went on to complete an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, during which she was Editor-in-Chief of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art and held an editorial internship at The New Yorker’s “Goings On About Town.”
Kristin lives in Manhattan with her husband and daughter.