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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 most of the writers who have contributed to the project. Some live in Italy, others came and went, still others write from afar. A list of their published work may be found near 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 the reports, interviews, profiles, and columns we publish 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 for conversation and debate among expatriates. If you’d like to join our team, write to us at the maginfo address and we’ll open a dialogue. Eloquence and insight is what we seek and what we hope to have provided so far, and hope to continue to doing into well the future. Our magazine is the sum of its wonderfully disparate parts. It is not a blog. Instead, it is a "log," as well as a shared narrative of lives and situations in Italy and beyond.

—Christopher P. Winner, editor and publisher


Brian Adcock Illustrator	Brian Adcock is a freelance cartoonist whose clients include Punch magazine, The Prague Post, and The San Diego Union-Tribune. He has produced illustrations for books, advertising and museums. He has an acerbic sense of humor and enduring loyalty to Manchester United. Adcock, who resides in his native England, is currently lead political illustrator for Scotland on Sunday and draws regularly for The Guardian.

Lynda Albertson Associate Editor and columnist	Lynda Albertson was born and raised in the Little Havana section of Miami. Though she never planned to be a "writer," affection for American Beat Generation authors led her to first love, poetry and later to love prose. Her writing has appeared in online books and print publications. She is also a founding member of Café.Blue one of the longest-running literary list-servs on the net. A weakness for travel and a fascination for wine led her to Rome, where she writes articles on food, wine, living and travelling as well as foundation grants for the non-profit American Institute For Roman Culture. She has taught writing and business communication courses in classrooms and corporate board rooms but prefers to spend her time in vineyards. Tomorrow is her favorite day of the week.

Erica Alini Writer	Erica Alini was born and raised in Milan. After spending a year of high school in Washington state, she decided that reporting about international affairs would be a sweet way to make a living. She earned a BA in International Relations from the University of Florence in June of 2006 and moved to Washington, D.C. to continue her studies at the Master of Science in Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is writes features and blogs for DC-based Foreign Policy magazine (blog.foreignpolicy.com). She graduates from Georgetown in December 2008. See Erica's blog

Rachel B. Alintoff Photographer	A New York-based freelance photographer, Alintoff's work included fashion editorials, photo essays, travel journals, and political events. Her corporate experience includes serving as fashion editor for an avant-garde New York magazine, creative manager of visual services for a prominent jewelry company, and Tri-State manager of photography for the children's division of a major corporation. A published photographer, she holds a Bachelor of Arts in Literature from Brooklyn College and participated in a Study Abroad Program at the University of London. See Rachel's site

Corinna Amendola Writer	Corinna Amendola obtained a BA in English lit at the University of Delaware. She also studied communications and Italian and can’t decide which one she likes more, or less — depending on the day. She spent two years in Moscow as a clerk for a major multinational firm while trying to make ends meet as a part-time ballerina. When she didn’t make it on her toes she moved to London, then to Brussels, and finally to Bern, where she lives with her Swiss husband and Moscow mutt (both named Christian; OK, it’s the way I pronounce them, and only one fetches). In her "free" time, she models and reads (this year it’s Jennifer Belle and Amelie Nothomb). She’s scheming to start a carpentry boutique and travels frequently to Milan, Bologna, and Rome.

Giulia Angelini Art Director	Giulia Angelini has an extensive background in Italian print design. She has her own studio in Rome and has worked with the INC (Istituto Nazionale per la Comunicazione), Imaginali, and with publishing houses (including Cecchi Gori editoria elettronica home video, Casa Editice Teen, Era Ora). She has also designed for health organizations, including LIT (Lega Italiana Tumore) and AISM (Associazione Italiana Sclerosi Multipla), ActionAid International, as well as for ICE (Istituto Commercio Estero), Comune di Roma, and Autostrade spa. She is certified as a teacher of desktop publishing by l’Istituto Europeo di Design. She began designing The American in October 2004. Giulia Angelini online.

Nicole Arriaga Associate Editor	Nicole Arriaga graduated from the Florida International University in Miami with a BA in Mass Communications. While completing her degree, she worked part-time as a news writer for a local television station in Miami and freelanced for The Miami Herald. Later, she was a producer for an NBC television affiliate. Arriaga came to Rome to earn her MA in International Relations at St. John's University. In her spare time, she enjoys reading books by Paulo Coelho, watching foreign films, and catching up with friends over an aperitivo.

Emily Backus Writer	Emily Backus is a freelance journalist in Milan, where she lives with her Italian husband and three boys. She was raised in San Diego, came of age in New York City, but wishes more of the world was like San Francisco, where she, too, was a ‘99er during the Internet boom. In New York, she worked as an investigative television producer for nearly five years. She left TV for the Pew Fellowship in International Journalism in 1999. After brief detour in communications, she crossed the media divide into print.

Matt Baglio Writer	Matt Baglio, a California native, is a writer living in Rome. Over the years he has worked for the Associated Press in Rome, and as an editor and contributor for various magazines in Italy and America, including the Benetton magazine Colors, and Bene. His book about exorcism, "The Rite," was published by Doubleday in 2009. He lives in the Rome area with his wife and son. Matt's website:

Henry Baker Writer	Henry Baker hails from Louisville, Kentucky, though he's equally comfortable with Baltimore's semi-southern charm. He served in the Peace Corps in Macedonia for two years but then yielded to the pull of southern Europe and Italy, where he studied in Bologna. He now lives in Milan but feels attached to the Veneto (preferably not independent). He has freelanced for the Baltimore Sun, the Baltimore City Paper, and a slew of other independent publications that pre-date the Web.

Vivian Barsanti Writer	Vivian Barsanti, a native Roman, graduated from Duke University with a BA in sociology and has a Certificate in Journalism from New York University. She's written for the New York Press, La Cucina Italiana magazine, and was managing editor at Bell’Italia’s American Edition in New York City. She enjoys yoga, eating ice cream, watching indy films, and someday hopes to live by the sea with a perpetual tan. For now, she is media and marketing rep for the Hotel Hassler in Rome.

Sima Belmar Writer	Sima Belmar is a dancer, teacher, writer, and Brooklynite who is married and lives in Naples. She sold all her belongings and moved to Rome from the Bay Area in 2004. There, she wrote dance criticism for the San Francisco Bay Guardian and learned to appreciate kudzu.

Martin Bennett Writer	Martin Bennett was born in Birmingham, England. He has lived and worked in West Africa and the Middle East. He arrived in Italy in 2001 and now lives in Rome where he teaches at the University of Tor Vergata.

Mark Berghold Creative Director	Mark Berghold (right) is a freelance designer with over two decades of experience in interactive and print design. Berghold is a graduate of Kenyon College where he received a BA in Classical History. When he's not teaching history at South Kent School in South Kent, CT, he may be found tending Elisabetta (his Turin-born spouse), their two boys (Michael and Nicholas), his flock of Merino sheep, beehives, rabbits, chickens, vineyard or orchard.

Marianna Bertagnolli Photographer	Marianna Bertagnolli was born in Verona, grew up in Trento, and attended Marymount International School in Rome. She received BA from the University of Southern California. Bertagnolli, who began taking photographs as a teenager, has worked with stills and portraits, shot CD covers, and since 2002 has been employed by the Associated Press. She is the proud mother of two children.

Alisa Brown Writer	Alisa Brown, right, was born in Hereford, Texas, where the cattle outnumber the people. Her dream was to live in Europe. That dream came true in 2001 when she moved to Milan with husband, Dan, and son, Tim. She’s been writing for over 20 years and has taught several writing and creativity courses. “I don’t believe in writer’s block. You just need to stir up your creativity.” One way is to do something outrageous and silly, like color her hair pink.

Darla Bruno Writer	Darla Bruno was born and raised in New Jersey. She's a freelance book editor and has taught literature and writing. She received her MFA from Emerson College in Boston where she also read fiction for Ploughshares. Darla spent the last two years traveling to Italy and studying Italian language. She's lived in Assisi, spent time in Rome, and is at work on her first documentary film about a dying hilltown in Abruzzo.

Greg Burke Writer	Greg Burke is the Rome correspondent for Fox News. He previously covered Italy for Time Magazine. With Christopher P. Winner, he helped found the biweekly Rome-based magazine Metropolitan in 1992. He considers himself somewhat of an expert on Italian football, and is the author of "Parma: Notes from a Year in Serie A." He studied comparative literature at Columbia University, but his goal in life is to become the head coach at Napoli.

Patrick Burnson Writer	Patrick Burnson is a writer specializing in international trade and cultural dissonance, who earlier in his career, worked for The Rome Daily American and the International Herald Tribune. Most recently, he served as editor-in-chief of World Trade Magazine, where he bore witness to the catastrophic events of 9/11 and its aftermath. In “Flags of Convenience,” his first novel, he delivers a suspenseful literary work examining the dark underpinnings of globalization. He lives and works in San Francisco. See Patrick's site

Suzanne Bush Associate Editor	Suzanne Bush is a Rome-based British freelance journalist . She has previously worked as a regional TV journalist for Carlton Westcountry, as a producer and assistant program editor for the ITN News Channel in London, and as a producer for the BBC1 Breakfast programme. She has freelanced for BBC radio, BBC Online and has written newspapers in Britain, America and Australia. Bush was a reporter and editor for the Italian news agency ADN-Kronos before taking a writing and production job with Al Jazeera in London.

Kate Carlisle Writer	Texan native Kate Carlisle has been in and out of Italy for 16 years, and based in Rome for 10 of those. Author of the Cadogan book published with the Sunday Times “Working and Living in Italy” she is also a feature writer for various publications, such as Italy, Italy and People magazine she has written on the country’s claims to fame such as fashion events and gastronomic wizards. As a special correspondent for Business Week magazine, she was the recipient of the Sidney Hillman award for investigative cover story on human trafficking and slave labor in Europe, and also nominated for the Livingston Award for the article "From Bad to Worse in a Gypsy Ghetto." A passionate advocate for human rights, and human rights monitor for the European Roma Rights Center (ERRC), Kate contributed to the research and writing of "Campland: The Racial Segregation of Roma in Italy."

Kelly Carter Writer	Kelly Carter is a freelance writer living in New York City. She was formerly the Los Angeles-based celebrity reporter for USA Today and the Insider columnist at People magazine. She switched to entertainment writing after an illustrious career as a sports reporter at several newspapers including USA Today, the Orange County Register and Dallas Morning News and was an on-air correspondent for CNN-Sports Illustrated. Born in Los Angeles, Kelly studied journalism at the University of Southern California.

Jessica Carter Writer	Jessica Carter, a native of the Missouri Ozarks, worked her way out of the countryside, up the television news ladder, and onto the anchor desk. Just months after making it to the top, she packed her blue suits, sold her big car and kissed America goodbye. Today she lives a leisurely life in Rome where she works as an editor and online producer. She is married to artist Alessandro Scarabello.

Dimitri Cavalli Writer	Nicknamed "The Pale Horse," Dimitri Cavalli was born in the Bronx, New York in 1972. His parents are Italian immigrants who grew up in the same village about 120 miles from Genoa. Dimitri grew up speaking Italian. In 1995, he graduated from Fordham University in the Bronx with a double major in political science and history. In 1997, he received his Master's Degree in politics from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He has been writing professionally since 1997. His freelance work has appeared in Inside the Vatican, New Oxford Review, Modern Age, Crisis, Touchstone, Catholic New York, New York Sportscene, the Journal-News newspaper in White Plains, New York, the Palm Beach Post in Florida, and the American Spectator Web site. He is planning to write books on Pope Pius XII and Joe McCarthy, the late manager of the New York Yankees.

Andrea Chalupova Hessmo Writer	Andrea Chalupa is a freelance journalist who lives with her husband in Vienna. Born in Sweden to Slovak parents, she is a true European. She speaks fluent Swedish, English, French and Slovak. In 2003 she lived in eastern Slovakia and wrote about the Roma (Gypsies). She lives in Vienna with her husband and misses the music and laughter of the Wild East.

Benedicta Cipolla Writer	Benedicta Cipolla arrived in Italy in 1995 armed with passable Italian, a fear of mopeds, and a Fulbright, none of which made life in Rome any easier. During her tour of duty in the Eternal City, she worked for a film production company, Vatican Radio, and Catholic News Service before returning to New York City in 2001. Currently she works in magazines and and writes freelance articles on religion for various publications.

Kristine Crane Writer	Former Fulbright fellow Kristine Crane has an MA in science reporting from Columbia University School of Journalism. Before returning to the United States, she served as news assistant for the Wall Street Journal Europe's Rome bureau and the Dow Jones Newswires Rome bureau. She wrote the chapter on Emilia Romagna for Avalon Travel's Moon Travel guides.

Conor Creighton Writer	Conor Creighton is an Irish writer based in Dublin. He contributes regularly to a traveller’s magazine called “Backpacker” and write features for a number of other magazines in both Ireland and Britain. After studying English Lit. at U.C.D. Dublin, he traveled the world before arriving in Naples. He spent 15 months there as an English teacher before returning to Dublin earlier this year to pursue a career as a freelance writer. He is currently working on a novel and a compilation of writings on Italy.

Sara Daucsavage Writer	Sara Daucsavage is a recent graduate of Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Communications. She first lived in Florence in 2004 where she wrote for an arts magazine and designed Web pages for an acclaimed photographer. An Oregon native, Sara enjoys running, yoga and reading Eugenio Montale on the Presidio in San Francisco. She lives in New York City.

Angie De Angelis Writer	Angie De Angelis graduated from the University of Florida with a BS in Journalism and a minor in Art History. During her junior year she studied in Florence for a semester and fell in love with everything about Italy. She is now a graduate counselor with Florida State University's study abroad program in Florence. She also writes for Vista: Florence and Tuscany, a culture and entertainment magazine about the area. In her spare time she enjoys eating, traveling, and reading.

David R. Deropolous Writer	Athens-born David R. Deropolous spent his formative years in Greece, before his family emigrated to the United States in 1967. He studied at the University of Chicago and Stanford, moving back to Greece in 1983. Deropolous taught modern history and political in Greece and Italy throughout the 1980s. A linguist by training (he speaks English, Greek, Italian and Spanish), Deropolous settled in Chicago in 1992, though he travels frequently and continues writing articles on European affairs for a variety of publications. He is married and has two children, Marius and Vanessa.

Laura Di Castri Writer	Laura Di Castri was born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia. She graduated from the University of Victoria with a BA in Sociology. After spending most of her teenage years and early twenties working in a Greek restaurant, she finally graduated and took off for Italy. She has been living in Emilia Romagna for a year now, teaching English and trying to figure out what to do with her life.

Marc Alan Di Martino	Marc Alan Di Martino was born in Massachusetts and grew up in suburban Baltimore. He studied painting at Virginia Commonwealth University before leaving for New York City, where he spent the next eight years. He has published in Pivot, a literary journal in Brooklyn, and on the side of the food cart at 6th Ave. & 45th St. in midtown Manhattan. He has also been published in BigCityLit, an online poetry journal. He is not a specialist, connoisseur, maven, or aficionado of any sort of food or drink. He lives in Rome where he writes, keeps a blog (see below) and studies Yiddish. Marc's blog

Jeff Donovan Writer	Jeff Donovan is an editor at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, Czech Republic. A graduate of UC Santa Cruz, he began his career in Rome in 1991 after hitching a midnight ride with Leoluca Orlando across Sicily. He has worked for the AP, Reuters, and The New Yorker. A huge soccer fan who loves the underdog, Donovan once rooted for Parma with his all heart but in recent years has thrown his support behind the U.S. national teams.

Kissy Dugan Columnist	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.

Suzanne Dunaway Associate Editor	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

Giovanna Dunmall Writer	Giovanna Dunmall is half-English and half-Italian but grew up in Belgium. She first moved to Italy to do an internship at international bimonthly magazine COLORS in 1998 and soon became an Associate Editor there under the brilliant but highly irascible Oliviero Toscani. In 2006 she moved to London where she started writing about her long-time passions — green issues and ethical consumerism — and supporting several new magazine launches and small, independent publications. See Giovanna's site

Judy Edelhoff Food Critic	Judy Edelhoff, The American's online food critic, launched and became producer of a series of prestigious lectures on history, politics, arts and culture televised nationally from the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Previously worked in for the Folger Shakespeare Library. In Rome, she served as Special Assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture. Her interest in cuisine has included collaboration with Italian chefs and master chefs, including the prestigious French Laundry in Napa Valley. She is a native Floridian and later Washington, D.C. resident.

Angela M. Ellis Writer	Angela Ellis is a former network television news producer for NBC in New York. In Rome, she co-produced a 2-hour documentary special for the Discovery Channel on the DNA investigation of an Egyptian pharaoh, and field-produced for several national and international channels. As a freelance writer, she wrote several chapters for Avalon Travel's Moon Metro Rome 2005 edition and for travel websites. She moved to Rome in 2003 to pursue a Master’s degree in International Relations at St. John’s University. She also has a Master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University New York. In 2007 she returned to New York, where currently she is a producer for NPR’s multimedia news show, the Bryant Park Project.

Nancy Feyen Columnist	Nancy Feyen has a BA, BM and MM, all from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She was working on a doctorate in piano performance when she traveled to Italy. She met her husband and never moved back. Feyen’s two children attend university in Milan. She has played chamber music and worked as a vocal and ballet accompanist. She also teaches music.

Matthew Fiorentino Writer	After graduating from the University of North Carolina with a degree in music composition, Matthew Fiorentino flew to Italy to have a look around. While attending language classes in Sorrento, he fell in love with his Italian teacher. Matt has an unhealthy obsession with Italian volcanoes (Stromboli is sick), late Beethoven, Salman Rushdie, Totó, Dante, and Sicilian cannoli. He now lives in Boston.

Erica Firpo Columnist	Erica Firpo is a freelance travel and culture writer based in Rome with her faithful sidekick Bella. Her writing projects have taken her around the equator (and even on it) from the temples of Angor Wat to South Central LA. Her recent projects include Fodor's Rome, Luxe City Guides and National Geographic Travel, as well as writing art reviews for Zing and other U.S.-based magazines. With a "fab five" mentality, Erica has looked in every Italian nook and cranny to find the top five gelateria, amazing restaurants, fabulous shoe stores, pretty pedicures and amazing paintings, all inspiring her self-published dining and entertainment guides, the "Little Black Book" series. See the Little Black Book site.

Patricia E. Fogarty Columnist	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.

Sassica Francis-Bruce Writer	Sassica was born in Sydney, Australia and spent most of her childhood between Australia and the United States before settling in Los Angeles as a teenager. She obtained a BA in Art History at UCLA and has been trying to figure out what to do with herself ever since. In 2007 she fulfilled her dream of living in Italy for eight months while learning Italian. She hopes to return to Italy, but for now makes her home between Australia and the U.S.

Julia Gabrick Writer	Julia Gabrick graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 2006 with a degree in European Studies. Determined to recreate the non-stop adventure that was junior year in Perugia, she moved to Salo', on Lake Garda, to teach high school English in 2007. Although she has since returned to the U.S., she's always looking for a way to live permanently in Italy without marrying anyone.

Annie Gold Columnist	Annie Gold is a pen name for two reasons: Some of the players in her juiciest tales would censor her — and if you can't tell it like it is in a dating column, what's the point? Moreover, Annie's 90-year-old grandmother has learned to use the Internet, and her name mentioned in connection to "sex" could lead to catastrophe. Born and raised in Columbia, Missouri, Annie obtained a BA in playwriting and Italian language at DePaul University, and moved to Rome to hone her language skills. She regularly contributes Insight Guides, DK Eye Witness, WHERE Rome magazine, eurocheapo.com, Berlitz, and Time Out, and co-authored the book "Where Shop!" Free time finds her cooking for company, "studying" for her sommelier certification, reading, writing long letters, belly-dancing, and yes, maintaining the tan.

Tal Gottesman Writer	Tal Gottesman studied English and Italian literature at university in Britian and worked in publishing for a over a year after graduating. She did internship at WHERE Rome magazine. She works at the Daily Mail in London.

Stephanie Gruner Writer	Stephanie Gruner is a freelance writer who divides her time between Lucca, Italy and Tbilisi, Georgia. In the Caucasus, she produces a weekly radio show on politics, business, social issues and culture. Previously, she wrote a travel column for the Wall Street Journal Europe. Before moving to Italy in 2002, she was a staff reporter at the Wall Street Journal in London, where she covered Internet, media and technology, and also appeared regularly on CNBC Europe. Prior to the WSJ, she was a staff writer at Inc. magazine, a U.S. publication for entrepreneurs.

Denise Hummel Writer	Denise Hummel is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University and the Washington College of Law. After practicing law for many years, Denise pursued a career in journalism. She lived in Varese from 2005 through 2007, freelancing for a variety of international publications. She is now the San Diego-based executive editor of justtheplanet.com, an online magazine for international travelers. See justtheplanet

Brette A. Jackson Writer	Brette graduated from NYU with a degree in Art History. After a stint in the art world, she attended Peter Kump's "New York Cooking School" (now "The Institute of Culinary Education"). She later worked at several restaurants and catering kitchens in New York City, and as an assistant freelance food-stylist and recipe developer for culinary publications such as "Martha Stewart Living" and "Food and Wine." Succumbing to her wanderlust, she and her husband moved to France where she accepted a job running the kitchen for the La Napoule Art Foundation in Mandelieu-La Napoule. While in Italy, she apprenticed at Florence's Cibrèo and Modena's Hosteria Giusti. She and her husband are currently living in Rome. Brette's blog:

Enrico Jacomini Direttore Responsabile	Enrico Jacomini was born in New York, May 2, 1941. He worked for over 31 years in the Rome bureau of The Associated Press. He was then Chief of Staff of the IAAF, the world track and field body, and Secretary General of the International Athletics Foundation in Monaco. He retired in 1997, but returned to become president of Venice Marathon, Italy's leading marathon. He is a consultant for several sports and editorial organizations.

Kristi James Writer	Kristi and her husband, Massimo, have a home and farm in the Abruzzo but are currently living in Seattle, Washington. They spent a year working on the farm with Massimo's family before realizing they were better suited for city life. Kristi writes cultural humor essays and book reviews. Her work can be found in Christian Science Monitor, You and Me Magazine, Six Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak (January '09), and right here.

Madeleine Johnson 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. She admires The American's temerity in publishing her writing, including a monthly column. Other publications that took on the challenge — Connoisseur, The Journal of Art — soon failed. She lives in Milan and has two children.