For Me, the War Begins in an Elevator

A collection of poems that carry the writer and the reader with their music and wisdom into life's complications, especially when you grow up during a devastating war that pits neighbors against each other. Dziho-Sator is a young Bosnian woman writing in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina. She writes powerful, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic poems about being a child of war, becoming a woman, and interacting with family and friends. She is a professor of English literature and language