Neda Miranda Blazevic-Krietzman is an artist, author and former professor of English and Core Curriculum, including art, at St. Catherine University in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN. She was born in Gracac, Croatia, and grew up in Zagreb where she graduated from the University of Philosophy with a double major in Comparative Literature and Sociology. She studied art in (West) Berlin, Germany. She resided between 1982 and 1992 in Berlin and Munich, Germany, New York, Boston and Iowa City as a writer, artist and professor. From 1993 until 2007, she lived and worked in Minneapolis, MN. Since 2007, she lives and works in San Diego, CA.