is an award-winning Italian screen and fiction writer. She lived and studied in the United States where she covered Lifestyle and Culture stories for numerous American and Italian publications including Vogue, T Magazine, Vice, Harper’s, and Rolling Stone. She writes and translates both in English and Italian and is the author of the short story collection Sister Stop Breathing (Calamari Press, 2012) and the novel Things That Happened Before The Earthquake (Doubleday, 2017) which was a Best Book of the Year for Esquire, Elle, Bustle, BBC, Oprah Magazine, and The New York Times. Her debut non-fiction book AQUA (Canongate) will be released in November 2025. She has a regular column in D Repubblica and is a Literature Advisor at the American Academy in Rome.