Tania Romanov

Tania Romanov Amochaev is the author of Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women (Travelers' Tales, 2018), also published in Serbian as Po Nasemu (Akadems Kaknjiga, 2020); Never a Stranger (Solificatio, 2019), a collection of award-winning travel essays; One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov's Search for Her Father's Russia (Travelers' Tales, 2020), published in Russia as СТО ЛЕТ ИЗГНАНИЯ (Rosspen Publishers, 2021) and winner of Gold for Memoir in the Northern California Publishers and Authors Book Awards; and San Francisco Pilgrimage (Solificatio, 2022). Tania's work has been featured in multiple travel anthologies, including The Best Travel Writing and The Best Women's Travel Writing series. Born in the former Yugoslavia, Tania spent her childhood in a refugee camp in Italy, before emigrating to the United States, where she grew up in San Francisco's Russian community. A graduate of San Francisco public schools, she went on to serve as CEO of three technology companies.