A.J. Vrana

A. J. Vrana is a Serbian-Canadian academic and writer from Toronto, Canada. She lives with her rescue cats, Moonstone and Peanut Butter, who nest in her window-side bookshelf and cast judgmental stares at nearby pigeons. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto, and her doctoral research examines the supernatural in Japanese and former Yugoslavian literature and its relationship to modern nation-building and historiography. A. J. Vrana's published works include the Indie Author Project-winning Chaos Cycle Duology: The Hollow Gods (2020) and The Echoed Realm (2021), the companion novel Wildblood (2024), two romantic short story collections, Stray Feathers (2022) and Wayward (2026), and the horror-romance novella, Her Ravening Heart (2026). Her short fiction includes “These Silent Walls” (2020), printed in Three Crows Magazine, “Sapling,” (2023) from Clan Destine Press’ horror anthology This Fresh Hell, and “The Undertow” in Percy Hart's anthology, The Heart of Elder Horrors . She writes at the intersection of romance, fantasy, and horror. Many of her works are infused with South Slavic folklore.