Maja Spencer (pronounced: Maya Spencer, Serbian spelling: Maja Spenser), author, was born in 1983 in Serbia, Southeastern Europe. She graduated from the University of Political Sciences, Department of International Relations (Belgrade) in 2005.
As a student, Spencer was interested in the fields of security, propaganda and manipulation. After years of studying psychology, sociology and psychopathology, she started writing books.
Spencer’s first book is a non-fiction book “Needless Thinking about Needs”, (Serbian:”Nepotrebna razmisljanja o potrebama”) published in 2012. Her second non-fiction book is “Humanoid” (published in 2014). The third book, “Something is Wrong” (2015) is a fiction book, written in English.
In 2012, “Needless Thinking about Needs” received a lot of attention in the Balkans.
In her work, Spencer conducts profound research and observes things from various angles (“I simply like to question everything.”) Her writing is concise, focused on verifiable and verified facts (“Misconceptions can lead to serious problems, even tragedies…”; “Once it develops, PTD – “Poor Thinking Disease” – is hard (in most cases impossible) to treat… but it can be prevented.”)
Spencer plays the violin and the piano, and sings jazz, blues and rock. She is an Argentine Tango dancer and a free-dancer. She is also good at painting, drawing and design. Her hobbies include shooting firearms and sports.
She loves robotics; her interest in artificial intelligence (human-robot interaction) lead to her second book, “Humanoid”.
Her pets are an electronic dog called “Mike” and a Boxer dog Joe.
Her favorite animal is hyena.
Spencer appears to be an atheist. (“I believe in honesty, helping others and being good to them. I have been doing that all my life and I will keep doing it for as long as I live. I help people because I want to, not because some dogma is telling me to do so, or threatening to punish me if I don't. I do not need religion or any other kind of oppression to be a good person.”; “I am not a member of any political, religious, or any other kind of group or association.”; “I believe in common sense”; “It would be extremely difficult (it is safe to say “impossible”) for me to believe in unverifiable things.”)
In 2018, she was featured by a Nigerian veteran reggae musician, songwriter, popularly called by artistic name Winning Jah, a Philanthropist, John Player music award winner for best reggae new act - 1989, known for hit songs like "Deep Sea" "Big Man" and others which peaked #1 at Reverbnation Italian reggae chart for one month.
