I write.
You read.
Novels, short stories, long features, non-fiction books, investigative pieces. Writing is what I do and I love, what fuels and feeds me. I write in English and Italian. I publish in Italy, the United States and, recently, in Canada. I read all the time, in five languages. And I move around. I lived in four countries and explored countless, alone and with my family.
I HAVE projects
THE WAY HOME
Laura doesn’t know where she is. Really, most of the time, she can’t find her way around familiar places, not to mention her own life. And that’s not even her biggest problem. The real trouble is that she doesn’t know why.
The Way Home is a novella exploring a woman’s sense of loss, and of being lost. I wrote it for my Creative Writing Master’s degree, and I’m turning it into a novel. In English.
WILD ORCHIDS
I’m back to mystery and in Panama with this crime novel, which develops many threads from my first (Italian) thriller.
My sleuth is Steve Brennan, a former American spy whose life on the banks of the Canal is falling apart. Flanked by Elisabetta, who can’t seem to leave the threat of violence behind, Steve will have to face his past in order to protect his family. But the reader is warned: among the expats on Panama’s pristine shores, no one is who they pretend to be. In English.
HOT OFF THE PRESS
The Toronto Journal just published my latest short story. Read it here.
Toronto Journal
Toronto Journal is a writing journal in print and sound. They publish two issues per year in the summer and the winter.
I PuBLISHED books
Powerful women had to make costly compromises in order to reach the top. I told their stories through interviews with Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, Angela Merkel, and Michelle Bachelet. Published in Italian.
After presiding over a jury for a murder trial in Newark, I wrote this creative nonfiction exploration of the effects of drugs and drug-related incarceration on the Black community in the Greater New York area. Published in Italian.
A crime novel rooted in Panama’s social inequality, it shows locals and Indigenous People come to terms with the foreign-money-fueled real estate boom of the early 2000s, a time of speculative frenzy and unchecked ambition. Published in Italian.
THEY READ AND THEY SAID
CORRIERE DE LA SERRA
MILAN, ITALY
“Written as a John Grisham-style legal thriller, Ragionevole Dubbio (San Paolo) is a true journey into American justice seen through the eyes of a journalist.”
Review for Ragionevole Dubbio
RAI
ROMA, ITALY
“A true story experienced first-hand by the author; an inner-city legal thriller with a social message.”
Review for Ragionevole Dubbio
AMAZON.COM
“This is already the third book I’ve read by the same author who manages to range between different genres. In this book there is a great ability to make the reader perceive the environments, scents, and colors of Panama. The story is never predictable and presents continuous surprises. The characters are presented in their complexity throughout the story. A must-read.”
Amazon review for Morte in Paradiso
LA FELTRINELLI IBS
MILAN, ITALY
“From Hillary Clinton to Angela Merkel, from Condoleezza Rice to Cristina Kirchner, from Michelle Bachelet to Ségolène Royal, the author offers us a series of juicy portraits of female politicians. Strategies, secrets, weaknesses, everything we don’t know about the protagonists of world politics is revealed, in an ironic and cutting way.”
IBS.it review for Potere Rosa