Jelena Čvorović is Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnography, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She has a PhD in Anthropology from the Arizona State University, USA. She is the author of Roast Chicken and Other Gypsy Stories (2010, Hamburg: Peter Lang) and co-author (with Dr Kathryn Coe) of Storytelling around the World: Folktales, Narrative Rituals and Oral Traditions (2022, ABC Clio). She has also published journal articles and book chapters on life history, and maternal and child health.