Tamara Perišić graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in English and Literature and Italian and Literature. She is currently pursuing doctoral studies in Knowledge Economy and Transfer of Information at the University of Zadar and preparing her doctoral thesis on the publishing industry.
From 2000 she worked in the publishing house Algoritam d.o.o., first as assistant director, then deputy director and during the last two years as director of the publishing department. At the same time she regularly selected and edited fiction and non-fiction editions, in total more than one hundred titles. She is fluent in English and Italian and has a working knowledge of Spanish.