Amela Marin moved to Canada from Sarajevo, Bosnia. Her writing appeared in magazines in former Yugoslavia, as well as Poetry Today, Meta, Gastronomica, Descant, PRISM International, BBC Radio and Radio Netherlands. "The Unbearable Lightness of Wartime Cuisine", a memoir about food during wartime, was included in The Gastronomica Reader, edited by Darra Goldstein and published by University of California Press. Her novella, The Sea, was published in 2010 by Quattro Books. She has translated poetry, stories, essays, novels and plays from Bosnian into English and vice versa. For many years, she worked as an arts administrator.