Irena Stanic Rasin

Perlina Press Founder and CEO 

Irena Stanic Rasin ​is a Croatian-American writer, translator, and creative professional living and working across two continents, in the cities of Las Vegas and Zagreb.

​When she’s not writing, translating, or teaching—and receiving prestigious awards for her work to boot— you can find her spending time with her family (her husband and their three beautiful children), or chasing after their rambunctious Coton de Tulear, Otto.

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Featured In...

• Croatian Heritage Foundation (Hrvatska matica iseljenika)
• Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT), multiple programs including Glas Hrvatske
• Croatian Writers’ Association (Društvo hrvatskih književnika)
• Croatian Writers’ Society For Children & Youth—The First Writers’ Club (HDKDM—Klub prvih pisaca)
• Croatica et Slavica Iadertina
• CroExpress
• Drenovci Library
• Forum by the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU)
• Harvard Club of Boston

• ​Hrvatska revija by Matica hrvatska
• ​Italica Press
• Johns Hopkins University
• Jutarnji list
• Kolo by Matica Hrvatska
• KRON4
• Marija Bistrica Library
• Moderna vremena
• Rutgers University
• The Arts Fuse
• University of Pula
• University of Zagreb
• Zagreb City Libraries (Knjižnice grada Zagreba)

Collaborators Include: 

• Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media
• ​Ivana Viduka Tesla, graphic designer
• Tomislav Torjanac, award-winning illustrator