Tania Romanov Amochaev

Tania Romanov Amochaev is an award-winning writer and photographer, sharing her travels and telling her story through her connections with others. She is the author of several travel memoirs and short works of non-fiction, including her most recent book, I Will Be the Woman He Loved, published in 2024, which documents her journey walking the Thames River path in England and her search for identity after the passing of her husband.

Tania was born in the former Yugoslavia but fled with her family to the San Sabba refugee camp in Trieste, Italy when she was a young child. After spending a large portion of her childhood in the camp, she and her family eventually immigrated to the United States and settled in San Francisco where she continues to live. She completed a mathematics degree at UC Berkeley in 1970 and earned an MS in Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, as well as an honorary doctorate from St. Catherine University in Saint Paul, MN. This led to her long career in tech where she not only served as the CEO of three different companies but founded the Healdsburg Literary Guild and the educational non-profit Public School Success Team. After retiring from corporate life, she decided to pivot and follow her passion for travel and writing, publishing her first book, Mother Tongue, an exploration of three generations of women in her family over the last 100 years set against the upheavals of life in the Balkans, in 2018.

Since finding this second career, her travels have taken her all over the world including Bhutan, Cuba, India, Japan, Namibia, and beyond. She has won multiple Solas Awards for Travel Writing, and I Will Be the Woman He Loved was recently honored as a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. She documents her adventures through her award-winning photography, actively posting on her Instagram account and finding new ways to tell and share her stories with the world.