Tania Romanov Amochaev is the author of Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women (Travelers' Tales, 2018), also published in Serbian as Po Nasemu (Akadems Kaknjiga, 2020); the Readers Favorite Award-winning Never a Stranger (Solificatio, 2019), a collection of travel essays; One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov's Search for Her Father's Russia (Travelers' Tales, 2020), published in Russia as СТО ЛЕТ ИЗГНАНИЯ (Rosspen Publishers, 2021) and winner of Gold for Memoir in the Northern California Publishers and Authors Book Awards; and San Francisco Pilgrimage (Solificatio, 2022). An award-winning photographer and recipient of multiple Solas Awards for travel writing, Tania's work has been featured in multiple travel anthologies, including The Best Travel Writing and The Best Women's Travel Writing series.

Born in the former Yugoslavia, Tania fled the country and spent her childhood in a refugee camp in Trieste, Italy, before emigrating to the United States. She went through San Francisco’s public schools, UC Berkeley, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She served as CEO of three technology companies, then founded the Healdsburg Literary Guild and the educational non-profit Public School Success Team.