Zlatina was born in Sofia, Bulgaria - the country of Christo, Jules Pascin, Dimitar Kazakov, Vladimir Dimitrov - The Master and many other great artists.

At 13 years of age, Zlatina was drawing portraits of family members, friends, characters from novels and plays, celebrities and historical personalities.

In 1991 Zlatina graduated from The National School for Fine Arts "Prof. Ilya Petrov" in Sofia. Her speciality was "Painting", the preferable medium - oil on canvas, and her best works were in the portrait genre.

On the opposite side of the street where The National School for Fine Arts was situated, The Odeon Theater was showing retrospective programmes. The cinema became Zlatina's new passion and she started to write short scripts.

After studying "Screenwriting" at The National Academy for Theatre and Film Art "Krastyo Sarafov" in Sofia, in 1997 Zlatina graduated with a screenplay for a full-length feature film: "The Poisonous Taste of The Fruit", based on the medieval story of the philosopher Pierre Abelard and his student Heloise.

In 1998 Zlatina finished a post graduate specialization in "Film Directing" at the same Academy, with a short film: "The Ruler of The North".

Zlatina wrote film reviews for Bulgarian magazines and newspapers ("Kino", "Demokratzia"). She was an author and a presenter of a TV programme "Film Portraits"for the private Bulgarian channel "7 days". It was a retrospective programme about personalities in the world cinema.

In 2003 Zlatina made her debut in the theatre (as a director/producer) with Ibsen's play "Hedda Gabler. Zlatina was invited to a guest appearance on television and she was interviewed for radio and newspapers.

The cinema and the theatre fascinated her, but Zlatina missed her work and life of an artist and she started to paint commissioned portraits.

In 2006 Zlatina wrote a screenplay: "The Cry of The Cat", based on Richard Kalich's award-winning novel, "The Nihilesthete". The story captured her: Haberman, a caseworker, meets a mewing young man with vestigial arms and legs, who suffers from a rare congenital ailment called "cri du chat" syndrome. He has a dormant artist's talent and provokes Haberman to begin an experiment and to get into the depths of the mysterious art.

In 2007 Zlatina moved to the USA.

She was a new face of Susan Van der Linde's collection Spring 2008 in New York City.

Zlatina decided to balance between painting and writing, to pursue her dream to make movies and to paint commissioned portraits.

She paints mainly in oil, acrylic and pastel. Her favorite artists are : Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Edward Munch, Egon Schiele, Odd Nerdrum, the Bulgarian painters: Vladimir Dimitrov - The Master, Nikola Manev, Genko Genkov. Zlatina is inspired by the Bulgarian culture and she is proud with the strong and vivid traditions of the Bulgarian Art School.