Edita Mujkic was born and raised in Sarajevo, in what was then Yugoslavia, and now is Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the war broke out in her home country, she fled Sarajevo in May 1992 with her two children. After five months in Croatia, Edita and her children moved to England where she was an interpreter for other Bosnian refugees, although at the time she could barely speak English. Two years later, in 1994, the family arrived in Melbourne. Edita's eventful family history prompted her to create a written record about it. While she worked on her memoir, Edita submitted extracts to several writing competitions and was longlisted, shortlisted, a runner-up and a winner. This encouraged her to persist with shaping the story for publishing. Between Before and After is her first book. Awards: Shortlisted for the 2020 Sydney Hammond Memorial Short Story Winner of the 2017 Varuna Mentorship Award Runner-up in the 2016 Deborah Cass Writing Prize Longlisted for the 2016 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers
