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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
Wine Columnist
Lynda Albertson was born and raised in the Little Havana section of Miami. Though she never planned to be a “writer,” a love for American Beat Generation writers led her first to poetry and then to prose. Her poetry has appeared both online and in print journals and she is one of the founding members of Café.Blue one of the longest-running literary list-servs on the net. A weakness for travel and a love for wine led her to live in Rome, where she facilitates academic programming for a Florentine university. 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.
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), as well as for ICE (Istituto Commercio Estero) 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.
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. He lives in the Rome area with his wife and son.
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.
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.
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.
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 Chalupa
Writer
Andrea Chalupa is a freelance journalist based in Stockholm. 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). Fearing she’d become as rootless as those she wrote about, she moved to Stockholm where she works as a press and cultural advisor at the Slovak Embassy in Stockholm. She 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
Kristine Crane is currently studying for MA in science reporting at the Columbia University School of Journalism. She has served as news assistant for the Wall Street Journal Europe's Rome bureau and the Dow Jones Newswires Rome bureau. She's done freelance work for The Wall Street Journal Europe, Religion News Service, Market News International, and Catholic News Service. She worked as a researcher on immigration issues in Rome after studying immigration as a Fulbright scholar. She wrote the chapter on Emilia Romagna for Avalon Travel's Moon Travel guides, coming out in the spring of 2008.
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 magzine 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.
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.
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 LA'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.
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.
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. She produced stories for Dateline NBC, the Today Show, the Discovery Channel and a pilot for Glamour Magazine TV. 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. Ellis is originally from Los Angeles, California and returned to the U.S. from Italy in 2006.
Marta Falconi
Writer
Marta Falconi received her degree in economics, and is now studying political science in Rome. She works as a reporter and writer for the Associated Press in Rome and has worked for its television group, APTN. She likes traveling (the Middle East is tops, to practice her Arabic), kickboxing, and dancing — not necessarily in that order. She speaks English, French, Spanish and she's about to start a German language course.
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.
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.
Annie Gold
Columnist
Annie Gold is a pen name for two reasons: Some of the players in her juiciest tales would insist on full censorship rights, and if she can't tell it like it is in a dating column, what's the point? Her 90-year-old grandmother has learned to use the Internet, and a Google search linking her name to anything involving "sex" could be catastrophic. 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 to several publications and websites on Rome and Italy. 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 and Editor
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.
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.
Madeleine Johnson
Columnist
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, "Quadrilatero." Other publications that took on the challenge — Connoisseur, The Journal of Art — soon failed. She lives in Milan and has two children.
Frances Kennedy
Writer
New Zealand journalist Frances Kennedy has lived and worked in Rome since 1992. During that time she has been a reporter for BBC Radio and Television, Italy correspondent for The Sunday Times (UK) and The Independent (UK). She also produces Acquerello Italiano, an audio-magazine for Italian language learners and enthusiasts, and writes for food and travel magazines. Kennedy works for the Italian news agency ADN-Kronos.
Madeline Klosterman
Writer
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.
Linda Lappin
Writer
Author Linda Lappin has lived in Rome since the 1970s, teaching English at Italian universities and working as a freelance translator. She is about to open a center for creative writing in Vitorchiano, near Rome (see www.pokkoli.com). Her novel, “The Etruscan,” is available from www.amazon.co.uk.
Monica Larner is Italian editor for Winer Enthusiast Magazine. Rome-based, she is the author of three books on Italy including "Living, Studying, and Working in Italy." When not in Europe, she can be found with pruning shears in hand at Larner Vineyard near Santa Barbara, California.
Karen Lillis is a copy editor at The Houston Chronicle newspaper. A graduate of the journalism program at Kent State University in Ohio, Karen has worked a series of jobs from reporting to page design to copy editing in places such as Prague (Czech Republic) and Colorado Springs (Colorado). She is now trying to tame her wanderlust.
Eric J. Lyman
Writer
Eric J. Lyman is U.S.-born freelance writer. A former chef specializing in French cuisine, he has also cultivated a taste for Italian food and wine and can often be found wandering the center of Rome looking for the perfect cup of coffee. He wrote the magazine's "Pane al Vino" colum from 2004 through September 2006.
Aaron Maines is a freelance writer, editor and translator based in Milan. He has written for a number of newspapers and magazines, including the International Herald Tribune, The New York Times and The Guardian. He wrote The American's food column from September 2006 through December 2007.
Katie McGovern
Writer
Katie McGovern is from Connecticut. She graduated from Harvard with a BA in English and American Literature, received a masters in International Affairs on a Fulbright scholarship in Germany, and an MBA from INSEAD on a Rotary Scholarship in France. She has lived in Europe (Germany, France, London and Rome) for the past ten years and currently resides in Rome with her Italian husband Germano.
Luisa Milanese
Writer and Listings Editor
Luisa Milanese is a true Milan native. For a decade she worked in public relations. In 1998, she joined the Italy Daily, a daily newspaper published in English by Rizzoli and The International Herald Tribune, where she wrote the culture listings page. After its closing, she was hired by the monthly magazine Capital. She now works for Conde Naste in Milan. Milanese speaks Italian, English, French and German. Milanese loves reading, going to the movies or to art exhibits and, above all, traveling.
Jonathan Miller
Writer
California native Jonathan Miller won the 2003 Rolling Stone College Journalism
Contest and blew the prize money on air fare to Italy and several hundred doner kababs. He has worked as a managing editor for College
Sports Online, and his work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Anchorage Daily News and Lacrosse magazine. He studied journalism at California State University, Chico, where he learned to love beer and The Beatles. He now works and resides in California.
Corbitt Nesta
Writer
Corbitt Nesta is a retired EFL and Italian/English
translation college instructor, better known in Italy
as a lettore. She has always enjoyed a good story and wrote them in her head for years. On Sept. 11, 2001, she realized that life was short, and she'd better start doing what she had planned to do on landing in Italy in 1967: write. Her short stories, essays and articles have appeared on Eclectica.com, The Summerset Review, East of the Web and in The Snow Monkey, Transitions Abroad Magazine and Lunch Hour Stories. She lives in Lombardy with her husband of many years.
Angela Paolantonio
Writer and Photographer
Angela M. Paolantonio, whose grandparents landed at Ellis Island, was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised on Long Island. Her love of photography began as she watched her father expose and develop contact sheets on the family kitchen table. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Art History degree from Long Island University and is a photo editor and senior art producer and consultant for national and international advertising, design and editorial companies. She lives in Los Angeles and Calitri, Italy.
Clara Park
Writer
Clara Park is a freelance journalist and a communication and change management consultant based in Rome. She writes on world news, gender, human rights and development issues for a number of publications, while also being a staff writer for the Italian women’s news agency Delt@News. Second generation Korean, Clara was born and grew up in Italy, but also lived in the U.S. and Korea and travelled extensively in Europe. She holds a bachelor's degree, cum laude, in communications from the University of Michigan, and a master's degree in communications management from the Annenberg School for Communications of the University of Southern California.
Clare Pedrick
Columnist and Writer
Clare Pedrick is a British journalist who has lived in Italy for nearly 20 years. She is a former Washington Post correspondent and ex-European Editor for the features agency, World News Link. She is now editor of Spore, a magazine on agriculture and development, as well as a freelance contributor to other publications. She lives in Spoleto with her Italian husband and three young children.
Edward Pentin
Writer
Edward Pentin, a Canterbury, England native, assisted with Newsweek's coverage of the papal election and is Rome correspondent for the National Catholic Register. Since graduating in international relations at the University of Keele in England, he has taught in Tanzania and spent two years working in an international school in Switzerland. He has a Masters in justice, peace and mission studies.
Susanna Pinto
Writer
Susie Pinto, a Chicago native, studied Classics at Northwestern University. After graduation, she worked for the Trade Commission of Spain (ICEX) as a market analyst promoting international commerce. In 2002, she moved to Rome to work for the Vatican Information Service in the Holy See Press Office. Pinto’s interests include romance languages and Indian cinema.
John Pitonzo
Writer
John Pitonzo is a literature and drama teacher at the International School of Florence. He has a monthly column, Postcard From Florence, with Calcio Italia, a British football magazine, that exclusively covers Italy. John runs a small farm in the Chianti in his spare time.
Elisabetta Povoledo
Writer
Elisabetta Povoledo has a Masters degree in Art History from the University of McGill in Montreal and studied art in Rome, Urbino and Winnipeg, Manitoba, where she grew up. She has been employed as a journalist for the past decade, working for Italian state radio and several American publications – though not, sadly, for any tabloids.
Dariush Radpour
Illustrator
Born in 1945 in Tehran, Radpour moved to Italy after completing Tehran Art School. He studied cinematography and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. In Iran, Radpour collaborated with Iranian TV as a documentary filmmaker, as well with major newspapers and magazines as a satirical illustrator. He’s been in Italy since 1980 and teaches editorial illustration at the European Institute of Design. He contributes drawings to La Repubblica, Il Manifesto, Il Giornale, La Stampa, and other newspapers and magazines. “He’s one of the best illustrators on the planet – period,” says The American publisher Christopher P. Winner, with whom he worked at the Rome Daily American in the early 1980s.
Layne Randolph
Writer
Layne Randolph lived in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado while she got her law degree from the University of Denver and worked with one of the world’s top law firms as a corporate lawyer. After having her fill of the life of a weekday workaholic and weekend ski bum, she decided to start a solo practice, traveling and working from her laptop computer. In addition to Colorado, she has lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Washington, D.C., and Florence, Italy. She now resides in Milan.
Michael Reynolds was born in Wollongong, Australia in 1968. He has taught modern literature in the U.S., mined gold in Australia, lifted peat in Scotland, and worked as a medical guinea pig in France. His first collection of short stories, a collaboration with American painter Troy Henriksen, entitled Sunday Special was published in 2002. His stories and other writings have appeared in Zzyzyva, Accattone, Crocevia, l’Unità, Heat and various other magazines. He is the founder of embrio Live Literature, an international live literature festival held annually in Rome under the auspices of embrio.net, a multimedia laboratory, and he performs as a member of the musical formation Liù. He lives in Rome, Italy, where he is currently at work on a novel and a new collection of short stories.
Jessica Ricci
Writer
Jessica Ricci received her Master's degree in journalism from New York University. She wrote for several publications in New York, lived in Rome for three years, and now runs a jewelry business in Providence, Rhode Island.
Amy K. Rosenthal obtained a Master's from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in European History at Queen Mary College (University of London). She specializes in Italian history and politics and writes and lectures extensively. She has recently written two articles for the Italian journal, Italiani Europei. She lives on and off between the UK, the U.S. and Italy.
Mia Rowan
Editor
Originally from Alaska, Mia Rowan moved to Rome by way of New York City where she worked as a television news producer at RAI for several years. She currently does freelance journalism and translations while writing a book about her Native American heritage.
Matt Santaspirt
Writer
Matt Santaspirt has written full-time for several publications in New York, and now enjoys working with academic publishers and traveling to universities throughout the Middle East and Europe. After living in Philadelphia, Wyoming and NYC, in 2004 Matt moved from the riverside village of Cobble Hill, Brooklyn to Rome, where he now dedicates himself to wine, pasta and all things pork. Combining his love of travel, food and writing has long been his goal and one that he continues to pursue within these pages. He has yet to fulfill his dream of becoming a Yak herder, but one day….
Rachel B. Schwartz
Photographer
A New York-based freelance photographer, Rachel Batya Schwartz'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.
Andi Shiraz is a Pakistani-born, Dubai-raised, former-and-always New Yorker, who — after living and working in Italy for over three years — has yet to master il congiuntivo. Her work has been published in the Canadian Writers' Journal, RAVE*SQ and Thinking Aloud. She's lives in Rome, where (apart from freelancing as a technology and content consultant for whoever will have her) she spends her time writing, making terrible puns, and trying to discipline an incorrigible cat.
Laura Smith is an English major at the University of Virginia. She was born and raised in Washington, D.C., and lived in Rome for five months in 2006 while studying literature and photography. She is working on a novel based on her grandmother's life. After she graduates in the spring, she hopes to move back to Washington and continue writing. In her free time, she enjoys reading (Franzen, Hemingway, and Kundera are among her favorites), watching independent or European films, and generally living the college lifestyle.
Eliot Stein
Writer
Eliot Stein is a proud native of Silver Spring, Md. He graduated from Emory University with a degree in Italian studies and journalism and left for Italy the next morning. He has studied sociolinguistics at the University of Siena and currently teaches English in Cagliari, Sardinia. His writing has appeared in Creative Loafing and in emails home to his grandmother. He falls in love with most any Italian woman who will smile at him.
Margaret Stenhouse
Writer
Scotland-born Margaret Stenhouse has lived most of her life in Rome. She arrived in the early 1960s expecting to stay six months. But La Dolce Vita had other plans. After a checkered career of babysitting, teaching English and working as a tour guide, she returned to her former love — writing and journalism. She has written travel pieces for Italian and British publications and was the Glasgow Herald's Rome correspondent for several years. She has also contributed to various guide books and published a book on the goddess Diana of Lake Nemi in the Castelli Romani hills, where she now lives. She is married with three sons, two grandchildren, a cat and an Abruzzo sheepdog.
