I was born sometime in the past century in Milan, Italy, but in my teenage years I attended an American school in Switzerland. My love for the English language and for traveling (despite having zero sense of direction) stems from those four magical years on Lake Zürich.

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I hold a Master’s degree and a PhD in Italian Linguistics and have been, in turn, university researcher, translator, and transcriptionist. I'm currently a school teacher. In non-fiction, I published a few academic essays and co-authored two books about the weight of English loanwords in the Italian language. 

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Although I've been making up stories since childhood and striving to manage the rest of my life in between, the six-book series The Legend of the Winged People is my first published work of fiction.

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I currently live in the South of Italy with my family, who are still learning to cope with my basically living in dreamland.