Ana S. Gad is a pen name for the acclaimed Serbian writer Ana Stjelja who was born in 1982 in Belgrade, Serbia. In 2005 she graduated from the Faculty of Philology from the Turkish Language and Literature Department. In 2009 she earned a Master’s degree in Sufism. In 2012 she obtained her PhD in Serbian Literature (with the thesis on the life and work of one of the first Serbian women writers and world travelers Jelena J. Dimitrijević).

She is an award-winning Serbian poet, writer, translator, journalist, independent scientific researcher and editor. She published more than 30 books of different literary genres. She is the author of numerous research papers and essays on literature, feminism and diverse cultures.

She is the Editor-in-Chief of various online magazines. As an acclaimed and awarded writer, she has published her works in various Serbian and international print and online magazines, literary blogs and portals. In 2018 she established the Association Alia Mundi for promoting cultural diversity.

She is a member of the Association of Writers of Serbia, the Association of Journalists of Serbia and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). She is a member of the organisations Europeana and CIESART (based in Barcelona).

In 2021, she successfully completed the creative workshop Awake Not Sleeping – Reimagining Fairy Tales for a new generation organized by UN WOMEN for Europe and Central Asia (UN WOMEN ECA) and earned a Certificate of Appreciation. In July 2022, she successfully completed the Introduction to Psychology course at the American Yale University, where her lecturer was the university professor and world-famous (Canadian-American) psychologist Paul Bloom. In November 2023, she successfully completed Culture and Creativity for the Western Balkans programme (CC4WBs), implemented by UNESCO, the British Council and the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS).