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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


Sam Alberts "Apicius"	Sam was born and raised in New York, N.Y., and made his first trip to Rome during his freshman year of high school, and from there his interest for the city only grew. After studying Classics and Art History at Davidson College, he seized the opportunity to return to Rome for a summer internship in 2008. Not finding two months sufficient time to delve into the city's history and culture, Sam remained in Rome. He now leads private tours, is developing the website YounginRome, and works as an apprentice in a well known restaurant. See Sam's blog

Nicole Arriaga "Bella Figura"	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.

Eleonora Baldwin "In Cucina"	American-born, Italian-raised Eleonora Baldwin lives in Rome and divides her time between working on film sets, food and travel writing, and designing Italian culinary holidays. She is currently editing her Italian cuisine/lifestyle manuscript, a collection of family recipes, food history notes, gastronomy traditions, and the ingredients that inspire them. Eleonora is the author/editor of four popular websites Aglio, Olio & Peperoncino, Roma Every Day, Rome City Guide for Kids and Forchettine.

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 is an American poet, writer and translator. His work has been published in Poetry Salzburg Review, BigCityLit, Pivot, The New Formalist, The New Yorker's “Bookbench blog” and Mr. Beller's Neighborhood. He is a frequent contributor to the Journal of Italian Translation, published twice yearly at Brooklyn College. The Fall 2009 issue includes his translations of the Roman dialect poet Mario Dell'Arco — which he is developing into a full-length manuscript — and an interview with prize-winning translator Michael Palma. 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

Nancy Feyen "Due Diligence"	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, also teaching music. She wrote the monthly column, "Due Diligence," from 2007 through 2011.

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.

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

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.

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.

Lauren Jurgensen Critic	Lauren Jurgensen graduated with a degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Mary Washington. When she wasn't studying the coming-of-age rituals of West Africans, she was writing daily for local papers in the Washington, D.C.-Metro area. A passion for spreading the word about world cinema eventually led her to become president of the campus film club. There, she insisted on screening Italian crime dramas and the Rome-set films of director Federico Fellini. Today she lives in solitude in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where she writes haiku, bikes the Civil War trails and builds an endless personal library of books and vinyl records.

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.

Katie McGovern Writer	Associate editor 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 resides in Rome with her Italian husband and young son.

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 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 and later by Style, a monthly men's magazine of Corriere della Sera. After two years in Condé Nast, she is now working as a fashion producer for A, weekly magazine published by Rizzoli. Luisa loves reading, going to the movies or to art exhibits and, above all, traveling.

Domenico Pate "At Large"	Domenico Pate was born and raised in Lamézia Terme, in Calabria, southern Italy, and 12 years ago moved to Rome where he still lives. He divides his time between his interest in Information Technology Law and his passion for wine (especially its ancient history). The latter he enjoys sharing with his international friends in Rome's historic center and sometimes farther afield.

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 blogs about writing, reading and Italy at Descriptedlines.

Clare Pedrick Writer	Clare Pedrick is a British journalist who has lived in Italy for 25 years and worked for a number of major publications. She wrote The American's "View from Spoleto" column from 2004 through 2009. She lives in Spoleto with her Italian husband and three children.

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 two blogs, Revealed in Rome and Inking Italy and has published in the Guardian.

Melissa Santos "A Napoli"	Melissa Santos earned a degree in journalism from the University of Washington and wrote for daily newspapers in Washington state before moving to Italy in 2010. She fell in love with Italy while studying art history in Rome during college and now lives in Naples with her husband, Apollo. She enjoys drinking caffe’, avoiding work and having conversations in Italian. Usually, these three pastimes coincide. See Melissa's site

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 wine company, Authentic Wine, Ltd.

Annie Shapero "Annie's Kitchen"	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.

Janet Steen Writer	Janet Steen is a writer and editor who has worked for magazines including Esquire, Time Out New York, and Details. She specializes in writing about books, music, travel, and creative people doing exceptional things. She is also a book editor who has a business called Editrixie. She lives near Woodstock, New York. See the Editrixie site

Jennifer Theriault "History 102"	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. Seduced by the cosmopolitan charms of Paris in 2008, she traded in la dolce vita for la joie de vivre and settled into a flat with her husband and fluffy cat on a lazy stretch of the Seine. 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.