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The American's Team

Good writers are hard to find. The American has been fortunate beyond measure to assemble a group of veteran journalists and younger writers. Since the magazine began publishing online in 2004, some have written once, others dozens of times. But each has done his or her part with enthusiasm and a commitment to professional ethics.

Below you'll find a list of the most recent contributors to the project (in all, we've published some 200 writers). Some live in Italy while others write from afar. A list of their published work for us may be found below their brief biographies. We do not list the personal email addresses of our writers at their request. Some have blogs and personal sites, and many of those are also listed. The writers are responsible for the content of their personal biographies and are also accountable for their spirit and accuracy. Errors in fact, however, are the full responsibility of the magazine. Point them out and we'll correct them.

If you wish to get in touch with one of our writers about their work you may write to them maginfo@theamericanmag.com and your message will be forwarded to them in due course. Whether they choose to answer is up to them.

Finally, while all content has been vetted and edited, the views represented in our reports, interviews, profiles, and first-person columns represent those of the authors and not the magazine. The American is a forum for ideas about Italy and the world around it. It's also a venue where expatriates can read about what their fellows are thinking. If you'd like to join our team, write to us at the maginfo address and we'll open up a conversation. Eloquence and insight is what we seek and what we hope to have provided so far. Our magazine is the sum of its wonderfully disparate parts. It is "old school" in that it does not represent a forum for reader ideas and "quickie" feedback. Nor is it a blog. Instead, it is a kind of "log," which we see as an effort to compile many life narratives, some from Italy, others not. With luck, bits of wisdom follow suit.

—Christopher P. Winner, editor and publisher


Food and Wine Archive Recipes and Libation	Our Food and Wine Archive section section contains nearly a decade of fine writing on fine foods and wines, including recipes, most of the selections culled from the work of the many columnists who have written for The American since its inception in 2004.

Letters Archive Staff "Letters"	Handwritten and typed letters are disappearing. The "Letters" column is an effort to gather letters, notes, telegrams and other items sent via mail, most culled from the archives of the magazine's writers. These included personal and business correspondence and other tidbits that help reflect a time when nothing was instant, especially replies, and stamps mattered.

Eleonora Baldwin "In Cucina"	American-born, Italian-raised Eleonora Baldwin lives in Rome and divides her time between food and lifestyle writing, interviewing chefs for a web series, and designing Italian culinary holidays. She has published a number of successful books and guides, and is currently editing her food-inspired bio/cookbook. She is the author/editor/photographer behind the popular blogs Aglio, Olio & Peperoncino and Roma Every Day.

Lucy Brignall "The Farm"	Lucy Brignall was living happily in London running a Montessori Nursery School, but when her family started growing, she and husband decided to move to a small farm in Le Marche. They now have five children, and between washing 98 socks a week, driving 300 kilometers on the school run alone, and cooking more meals than some restaurants do, she takes time out to write. She has a blog where she writes about day-to-day life. See Lucy's blog

Alexandra Bruzzese "Second Generation"	Born and raised in America's smallest state, Alexandra graduated from College of the Holy Cross in 2011 with a dual degree in Italian and Spanish literature. The granddaughter of Italian immigrants, she was eager to explore her Italian roots and spent her junior year abroad in Bologna. She returned there after graduation where she worked as an English teacher and translator. An avid reader and writer, she now lives in Rome with her identical twin sister.

Mark Campbell "That's Queer"	Mark David Campbell grew up in a small village north of lake Ontario, Canada. He spent two decades studying and working in archaeology and anthropology in Central America, Canada, Jordan, Egypt and Greece. He earned his Phd. in social cultural anthropology from the university of Toronto in 1996 and taught as a part-time professor. While on project in Greece he met an Italian doctor, fell in love, got married and set up house in Italy. He paints, writes and teaches, moving between Milan and Lago Maggiore. He has had art shows in Canada and Italy.

Don Carroll "Closing Argument"	Don Carroll is an American attorney in Rome specializing in U.S. income, gift and estate tax, multijurisdictional estate planning and administration and real estate transactions. He is also legal counsel to U.S.-based colleges, universities and non-profit organizations with programs in Italy. He has been a speaker at American Bar Association symposia and has taught at John Cabot University. He is married with one son and his passions are Umbria and the theater. He can be reached at: donald.carroll@studiopirola.com

Marc Alan Di Martino "Man About Rome"	Marc Alan Di Martino grew up on the Eastern Seabord of the United States. After eight years in Rome, he now runs a small language school in Perugia where he teaches English as a Foreign Language. He's an occasional poet, writer, blogger and translator as well as local chapter coordinator for the Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics (UAAR). He has lived in Italy since 2003. Marc's "skeptical" blog

Kissy Dugan "Parenthood"	Kissy Dugan started her career at the age of four at Delaney's Irish Pizza Pub where she sang back up for a band... of midgets... dressed as leprechauns. From there, a career in comedy was inevitable. As a comic, Kissy's work appeared regularly at all of L.A.'s famous clubs like Laugh Factory, Comedy Store and The Improv. She has performed her comedy all over the United States and eight countries in Europe. As a writer, Kissy has worked in many capacities including: indie film, stage and public relations. She now takes her new experience as a mother to the pages of The American. See Kissy's blog

Suzanne Dunaway "Suzanne's Taste"	Suzanne Dunaway is the author and illustrator of "Rome, At Home, The Spirit of la cucina romana in Your Own Kitchen" (Broadway Books) and "No Need To Knead, Handmade Italian Breads in 90 Minutes" (Hyperion). She has had illustrations published in The New Yorker, Gourmet, Bon Appetit and the Los Angeles Times. See Suzanne's site

Dalila Ercolani "Apprentice Foodie"	Dalila Ercolani was born and raised in Rome. At 18, she moved to England where she earned a degree in International Management and Spanish at the University of Bath and a Masters in European Public Policy at UCL in London. At university, she fell in love with cooking while learning its basics. After five years in the UK and in Spain, she now lives in Rome and has teamed up with her foodie sister on a food blog called Quattromani.

Patricia E. Fogarty "Scriptorium"	Ex-Rabelais scholar, "Scriptorium" boss Fogarty skipped from degreeland to clock-filling doublejobs in NYC: ghetto teaching; freelance copyediting Prentice Hall. The next, Italian experience added translation word games. In Rome, jump-started an Italian publisher’s English-language series, cinema-slanted. Over years, time snatched for travel pieces, short stories, placed wherever they fell. "Scriptorium": a few monthly grafs from an over-booked head.

James Francis "The Game"	James Francis earned a degree in Italian and German from Durham University, England. After enjoying his time in Rome during an ERASMUS placement in 2009, he decided to return two years later as a freelance journalist and English language teacher. His enthusiasm for sport and cuisine has been more than satisfied by Rome life. A keen supporter of A.S. Roma, he is never far away from the Curva Sud on match days.

Molly Hannon "The Prowler"	Molly Hannon is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn. She has written for the New York Times, Esquire, the Daily Beast, Gambero Rosso, Hemispheres, grist, NPR, La Cucina Italiana, Decanter, Wine Enthusiast and is the managing editor of Foodshed Magazine. She spent the past three years writing, sipping, sampling, and occasionally overindulging across Europe. She's thrilled to be back in the U.S. even though she lives in between a Checkers and a McDonald's. You can find more of her work here at www.mollyhannon.com.

Gina Intriligator Web designer	Gina Intriligator, who designed The American online, has eight years experience in print, Web and multi-media projects. She's received numerous grants and awards for her work as a visual artist and applies her fine arts background to all her design work. She holds a BA from the University of California, San Diego and an MFA from Rutgers University. She lives in Southern California, where she enjoys surfing, yoga, photography and her two beautiful sons. See Gina's portfolio

Madeleine Johnson "Milan Notebook"	Associate editor Madeleine Johnson is an unrepentant midwesterner who has lived in Italy — with a two-year break in Paris — since 1988. She has degrees in art history from Wellesley College and U.C. Berkeley. To her monthly column for the American, she brings two decades of thought and research on a wide range of Italian social and political matters, including education, history, politics, literature and culture. She has written about Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for the New York Post and is a frequent contributor to the Financial Times, for whom she writes on numerous matters including Italian real estate, urban growth, confiscation of Mafia property as well as travel and food. She lives in Milan.

Vittorio Jucker "The Economist"	Born in Paris, raised in Rome, educated in Manchester and London, Vittorio Jucker remains very much an Italian citizen and lives in Rome. He joined Italian state company ENI in 1965, working in Africa, the Middle East, Venezuela, the then-Soviet Union and China, with two stints in New York. He also held senior positions at Ecofuel in Milan and Agip Petroli in Rome. Until his retirement in 2000, he was the London-based director of natural resources for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He has written articles and lectured frequently at universities and conferences.

Madeline Klosterman "American Girl"	Madeline Klosterman was born in Dayton, Ohio in corn and soybean country. As the youngest of 14, she strictly followed the edicts of family order theory and ran off to see the world upon turning 18. She has traveled Europe and the United States, lived in San Francisco, Seattle, and Southern California. She came to New York in 1999 and studied creative writing at the Writers Studio in the West Village. She loves art, nature, vodka martinis and Brazilian music. Spurning Manhattan, she lives in Brooklyn (in Walt Whitman's old neighborhood) and hangs out where artists and musicians continue to thrive and inspire her.

Patrick Masterson "Tracks"	Patrick Masterson is a freelance writer living on Chicago's West Side. Born in New York and raised in South Carolina, his enthusiasm for reading and writing led to a degree in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of South Carolina. Though his free time is divided primarily between writing for Dusted Magazine and DJing for the Chicago Independent Radio Project, Patrick also spends significant time illegally obtaining MotoGP and World Superbike broadcasts by foreign providers, craft beers, and traveling on a shoestring budget.

Letizia Mattiacci "In Provincia"	Letizia lives on a magical mountain near Assisi. Born and raised in Italy, she learned to cook from her Sicilian mother and to dream about the world from her Umbrian father. A former behavioral ecologist, she left academia together with her husband Ruurd to renovate a 500-year-old farmhouse. Years of hard work yielded a B&B and a cooking school, Alla Madonna del Piatto , which is run by the family (including daughter Tea and dog Google). Letizia's recipes and tales of Umbrian life appear on her blog.

Amber Ruth Paulen "Nomad"	Amber grew up on a farm in West Michigan. At 22, she bought a one-way ticket east and has yet to shake the thought that she's always going somewhere. Since writing can't happen while traveling, she lives in Rome, where she is happiest typing out a manuscript. She also freelance writes and copyedits, and more of her work can be read at www.amberpaulen.com.

Alexander Penn Film critic	Alexander Penn is a born and bred Londoner currently finishing up his Newspaper Journalism Masters at City University. Spending his student days with East London Italians, he's become at one with their culture and fell in love with Rome when he first visited three years ago. He's a long-time lover of film, particularly the work of Sergio Leone, Federico Fellini and Giuseppe Tornatore. Alexander's had DVD reviews published in national UK paper, The Sun, and continues to ply his passion in his part-time job at an independent cinema.

Amanda Ruggeri "La Straniera"	Growing up, Amanda Ruggeri lived on a Vermont mountain in winter, a boat in Maine in summer, in Rochester, N.Y. on off-seasons, and in her books at every moment in between. The peripatetic lifestyle — and love of writing — stuck with her. After a degree in history from Yale and an M.Phil in international relations from Cambridge, she moved to Washington to cover politics and the economy for U.S. News & World Report before deciding that her life needed more exposure to 15th-century churches, ancient ruins and Berlusconi-style politics. Now a freelance writer in Rome, she writes a blog called Revealed Rome and has published in the Guardian, the New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, and Travel + Leisure.

Martina Scapin "The London Eye"	Martina was born in Oslo, Norway on a cold wintry night, fleeing two years later with her family to live under the San Francisco sun. Having resided in five different countries while growing up, she has mastered the expat life, and currently works and lives in London. A Swiss and Italian national, she speaks both German and Italian, but counts English as her mother tongue. She spends her free time writing, traveling and listening to Guns N' Roses.

Eleanor Shannon "Tasting Notes"	Eleanor is based in Liguria, not far from Milan where she trained to become an Italian sommelier (Associazione Italiana Sommeliers). Originally from Charlottesville, Virginia, she earned a BA in French and history at Dartmouth and an MBA at Harvard. She worked for the World Bank in Africa, taught at the University of Virginia, and raised three children. In 2004, the phone rang with an invitation to teach university students in Italy, and she never looked back. She is developing her own her own website about Italian wine.

Annie Shapero Writer	Descended from a long line of gourmets, Annie has food and wine in her DNA. A nationally certified Italian sommelier (AIS) and recreational chef, she picked up the essentials of Italian cooking over the course of eight years in Rome and her frequent travels throughout Italy. A believer in culinary sorcery, Annie understands of the healing powers of everything from chicken soup to a flourless chocolate aphrodisiac. A freelance food, wine, and travel writer, she is a contributor to Eurocheapo.com, Berlitz, Time Out, Insight Guides, DK Eye Witness Guides, as well as Where Rome, Draft, and YRB magazines. Now in Brooklyn, she serves as Wine Director and Senior Editor for Haute Life Press, and runs "DiVino", a wine consulting business. See Annie's blog:

Andrea Smith "The Hiker"	Milan is base camp for Andrea Smith's Italian hiking adventures. Her husband and hiking companion, Marino, brought her to Italy from Canada more than 20 years ago as a souvenir after completing his studies at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto. A vipassana meditator, former tai chi instructor and E.S.L. teacher with a degree in Chinese and Far Eastern Studies from the University of Toronto, Andrea works as a translator and administrator in a Milanese hospital. When not working, meditating or hiking, she writes short stories. Here, she's pictured with Marino at the Lunghin Pass in Engadina.

Book Staff Book Reviews	Our book staff consists of writers who contribute regularly and those who chip in from time to time. Names are withheld because the reviews are about the book, not the writer of the review. Our notices are intended only to spread interest in reading by proving unique vantage points and occasionally uncommon literary positions. Some reviews are signed.

Film Staff Movie Reviews	A monthly taking stock of our favorite and least favorite movies, both old and new, from the archives of our eternally good-natured critics.

Jennifer Theriault "History 102"	Los Angeles-born Jennifer has been an uninnocent abroad since 2005. After a graduate degree in English literature from California State University Northridge, she moved from L.A. to Rome, where she collaborated on the randy "A Chick's Guide to the Eternal City" and worked as tour guide. After time in Rome and Paris, she and her husband now live in Barcelona. She counts books, the Italian Renaissance, yoga, hip-hop, glossy mags and her two Parisian-born cats, Bellaluce and Basquiat, among her chief vices. See Jennifer's site:

Julianne VanWagenen "Wonderland"	Julianne is a twenty-something United Statesian best known for her 1991 rendition of a Bon-Bon in the Lansing, Michigan community theater performance of "The Nutcracker." She has since moved on to greater, if less celebrated roles in life. She graduated from DePaul University in Chicago and moved to Rome in 2006 to enroll at L'Universita' Roma Tre. In 2010 she returned to the United States, where she's now studying for an advanced degree in Italian at Harvard. She's an advocate of the elegant written word, positive romanticism, quests, tutus, a multiverse, and eating bottom feeders at home rather than sushi out.

Christopher P. Winner Editor and Publisher	Christopher P. Winner was born in Paris, France. He founded The American in 2004. Before that, he was executive editor of The Prague Post and the London-based European correspondent for USA Today. An American citizen, Winner lives in Rome and has been based in Europe for most of his career. He writes the column Area 51 He's a lifelong Neil Young and New York Yankees fan.

David Winner Fiction Editor	David Winner's first novel, "The Cannibal of Guadalajara," won the Gival Novel prize and has earned praise from National Book Award winners Shirley Hazzard and John Casey. His short fiction has been nominated twice for the Pushcart and the Associated Writing Programs Intro prize, as well as winning the 2003 Ledge Magazine Short Story contest. He has published in The Village Voice, Fiction, Confrontation, Dream Catcher, The Cortland Review and several other journals in the U.S. and UK. Another story, "My Lover's Moods" was made into a short film screened at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. See David's site:

Marcia Yarrow Film Critic	A military brat, Marcia Yarrow was born in Hamburg, Germany. She grew up in Germany, Spain, and Provo, Utah. She attended Michigan State University, graduating with honors in French studies in 1990. She attended the National Film School of France, La Femis. She also studied film at USC. She lives in London with her Siamese cat Miou-Miou and her Sioux Indian boyfriend Jasper. She's working on a book on modern European film and second one called, "How to See Movies."

Germano Zaini "Da Germano"	Germano Zaini was born and lives in Rome. He has a degree in biology and works for a pharmaceutical company. He loves traditional Italian and international cooking, mixing flavors to create his own brand of "fusion" cuisine. In his spare time, he cooks for his American wife and friends.